Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ?

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ?
Date	2017-05-15 01:21 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 5/15/2017 12:42 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
>> As long as <ROT and ROT> aren't presently used for anything,...
>> I truly can't believe anyone would give a hoot about one extra
>> character to type.  It's more an issue of why bother thinking about
>> it?
>
> It's not the extra character, it's that I can never remember which
> direction is ROT and which is -ROT, and I suspect it's the same for
> (some) other users too.  But it's not worth making a change this late in
> the game.

Really?  Top of stack is normally on the right.  ROT moves the TOS to 
the left, so it is <ROT.  Is that not pretty clear and consistent with 
other notations such as the stack comment on word definitions?

"late in the game"?  Changes have been made pretty continuously from 
what I've seen, but then I guess I'm not really that familiar with the 
detailed time line.

-- 

Rick C

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Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-05-13 18:00 -0400
  Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-13 15:19 -0700
  Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-05-13 13:21 -1000
  Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-14 11:23 +1000
  Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-05-14 00:34 -0700
    Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-15 10:12 +1000
    Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-14 23:43 -0400
      Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-15 13:47 +1000
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-05-15 09:51 +0000
      Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-05-14 21:42 -0700
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-14 22:17 -0700
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-05-15 17:57 -0400
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 15:49 -0700
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-16 02:16 -0400
              Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-05-16 19:54 -0700
                Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-17 08:11 +0200
                Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-05-17 11:09 +0000
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-05-16 03:53 -0500
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 01:21 -0400
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-05-15 00:30 -0500
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-14 22:40 -0700
              Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 02:06 -0700
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-05-15 22:45 -0700
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-15 09:05 +0200
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 02:11 -0700
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-05-15 09:52 +0000
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-15 05:48 +0000
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-05-15 05:14 -0500
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-05-15 11:40 +0000
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 02:03 -0700
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-05-15 21:24 +0200
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-16 09:57 +1000
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-16 08:09 +0200
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-17 00:54 +1000

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