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Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust`

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust`
Date 2015-09-15 16:55 +1000
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References <msks3o$6fv$1@speranza.aioe.org> <BJmdnR8Wcp_DFW7InZ2dnUU7-XGdnZ2d@supernews.com> <mt5b3m$2c9$1@speranza.aioe.org> <2015Sep14.103356@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>

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Anton Ertl wrote:
> "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
> >I think 83 loop was a positive change.  It worked over the full range, eliminated
> >the need for /LOOP
>
> But Forth-83's +LOOP does not eliminate the need for \LOOP, so you can
> just as well have /LOOP instead of +LOOP.
>
> And if the start value is at the wrong side of the limit value, DO and
> even ?DO are not so great, so overall, I feel that the Forth-83
> counted loops leave a lot to be desired (not that the Forth-79 ones
> were better).  But the 83-LEAVE is indeed better than the 79-LEAVE.
>
> - anton

I have no complaints with +LOOP.  Considering its simplicity and
what it can do, the asymmetry is a small price to pay IMHO.

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old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Marcos Cruz <null_email_so_use_my_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-09-07 20:29 +0000
  Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-08 14:52 +1000
    Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 00:57 -0700
      Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-09-08 15:19 +0200
    Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Marcos Cruz <null_email_so_use_my_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-09-08 16:25 +0000
      Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-09 11:39 +1000
        Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Marcos Cruz <null_email_so_use_my_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-09-09 10:42 +0000
          Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-10 14:05 +1000
            Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Marcos Cruz <null_email_so_use_my_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-09-10 13:33 +0000
              Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-09-10 22:04 +0200
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-09-10 22:13 +0200
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-11 13:14 +1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-09-11 12:30 +0200
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-11 21:47 +1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-09-11 14:09 +0200
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-12 11:29 +1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-09-11 16:05 -1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-14 12:25 +1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-09-13 17:53 -1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-09-14 08:33 +0000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-15 16:55 +1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-15 01:46 -0700
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-09-15 15:14 +0200
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-09-15 15:13 +0000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-15 16:13 -0700
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` jim.brakefield@ieee.org - 2015-09-15 17:05 -0700
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-15 18:35 -0700
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-19 11:42 +1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-09-19 10:48 +0000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-20 00:01 +1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-09-19 15:02 +0000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-21 15:51 +1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-09-15 08:45 -1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-16 11:18 +1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-09-16 06:10 +0000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-17 15:15 +1000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-09-17 06:04 +0000
                Re: old `leave` renamed to `exhaust` Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-09-11 14:16 +0200

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