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From: "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ?DUP (was: Floating Point : To Stack or Not To Stack)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:30:40 -0400
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:19:30 -0400, Anton Ertl  
<anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:

>> [...]
>> True, but ?DUP-IF is fugly.
>
> Compared to ?DUP IF it's beautiful.  Faster on threaded-code and
> native-code systems without adding extra complexity to the compiler.
>

Um, why wouldn't it be named ?IF ?
Ditto for ?DUP-WHILE as ?WHILE .


Rod Pemberton
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