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| From | "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words |
| Date | 2013-02-13 07:39 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <op.wsfovdntsu5d0p@david> (permalink) |
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:10:49 -0000, Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 11, 8:07 am, "Peter Knaggs" <p...@bcs.org.uk> wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:54:32 -0000, Mark Wills <forthfr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Sure, but "<spaces>name" does not come from the _stack_ so why is it >> > shown on the input side of a _stack signature_. >> >> Because it is a "signature" rather than a "stack signature". The input >> stream forms part of the input to the word. > > When did this name/usage change take place? Was it with the adoption > of ANS? ANS refers to it as a "stack notation" (2.2.2) although in "Parsed-text notation" (2.2.3) it then adds the " notation to the stack description. I have always thought of it as a signature, it makes it much easer to reason about the stack operation. -- Peter Knaggs
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Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 05:38 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-05 06:09 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 06:29 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-05 07:02 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 07:17 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2013-02-05 21:07 +0000
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-02-05 18:18 +0100
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 13:54 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-05 14:02 -1000
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 23:19 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-06 06:59 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-06 15:34 +0000
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 20:48 -0500
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 23:17 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-02-06 00:01 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-06 01:02 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-02-06 04:24 -0500
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-02-06 07:39 -0500
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2013-02-11 08:07 +0000
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-11 07:10 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-02-11 15:51 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-11 23:05 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-11 22:03 -1000
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2013-02-13 07:39 +0000
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 00:23 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2013-02-13 18:08 +0000
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-02-09 13:49 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-02-10 00:17 +0100
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-02-09 17:20 -0800
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2013-02-11 08:29 +0000
Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-11 14:27 +0000
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