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Re: A use for quotations

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: A use for quotations
Date 2016-08-17 11:29 +1000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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Gerry Jackson wrote:
> In the RfD for quotations it states that quotations just provide
> syntactic sugar for code that can be written using :NONAME. This has led
> to some opposition with statements summarised by "why bother and
> complicate Forth with an unnecessary feature".

I see :NONAME is a primitive - a low-level mechanism that can be applied
to a variety of situations.  While name-lessness in general is a bad thing
(hard to test, re-use etc) there can still be valid uses for :NONAME e.g.

: +IS ( xt <name> -- )
  >r  :noname  r> compile,  ' >body  dup >r  @ compile,  postpone ;  r> ! ;

IMO quotations aren't syntactic sugar for :NONAME, they are a specific
application of it.  Whatever the ills of quotations, they don't necessarily
apply to :NONAME which is a different beast altogether.


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A use for quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-08-14 19:51 +0100
  Re: A use for quotations Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-08-14 19:44 +0000
    Re: A use for quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-08-14 22:57 +0100
  Re: A use for quotations hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-08-14 14:05 -0700
    Re: A use for quotations Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-08-14 16:16 -0500
  Re: A use for quotations "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-08-17 11:29 +1000
    Re: A use for quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-08-17 10:06 +0100
      Re: A use for quotations "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-08-18 12:18 +1000
        Re: A use for quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-08-19 16:07 +0100
          Re: A use for quotations "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-08-19 09:35 -1000
            Re: A use for quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-08-19 23:03 +0100
          Re: A use for quotations "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-08-20 13:19 +1000
            Re: A use for quotations Coos Haak <htrofhc@gmail.com> - 2016-08-20 14:55 +0200
              Re: A use for quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-20 15:38 +0000
              Re: A use for quotations "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-08-22 14:58 +1000
                Re: A use for quotations Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2016-08-22 04:18 -0700
                Re: A use for quotations Coos Haak <htrofhc@gmail.com> - 2016-08-22 15:13 +0200
                Re: A use for quotations "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-08-24 22:20 +1000
                Re: A use for quotations hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-08-24 09:44 -0700
                Re: A use for quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-08-25 10:09 +0100
                Re: A use for quotations "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-08-27 12:24 +1000
  Re: A use for quotations humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 00:55 -0700
    Re: A use for quotations hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-08-17 02:19 -0700
      Re: A use for quotations humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 07:49 -0700
        Re: A use for quotations humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 08:18 -0700
    Re: A use for quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-08-17 10:30 +0100
      Re: A use for quotations Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2016-08-17 10:34 +0100
        Re: A use for quotations humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 07:43 -0700
      Re: A use for quotations anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-08-18 07:35 +0000

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