Re: POCKET ?

From	"HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
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Subject	Re: POCKET ?
Date	2017-05-05 21:10 +1000
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foxaudioresearch@gmail.com wrote:
> n Monday, April 24, 2017 at 12:03:23 PM UTC-4, hughag...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > PAD is absolutely worthless. Putting PAD in the standard makes the Forth community
> > look stupid.
>
> I don't think PAD is worthless. I also made myself a string stack word set for myself,
> but PAD is simply a quick way to get at un-allocated dictionary space. If someone
> doesn't understand that they will find out fast enough. That's how
> Forth works. No training wheels.
>
>
> B

The more I thought about it, the harder it became to justify assigning a fixed
buffer for temporary use.  Then I remembered the Forth trick of using the
free memory under the stack.  In ANS it would look something like this:

    here unused + 256 - value POCKET  ( -- adr )

Nor would it be limited to one buffer.

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  Re: POCKET ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-20 20:27 -0700
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      Re: POCKET ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-20 19:12 -1000
        Re: POCKET ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-21 21:56 +1000
          Re: POCKET ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-21 18:19 -0700
            Re: POCKET ? The Beez <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 02:11 -0700
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