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Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:23:13 -0000, Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Feb 13, 7:39 am, "Peter Knaggs" <p...@bcs.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:10:49 -0000, Mark Wills <forthfr...@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.
>
> It's the same in 200x IIRC. I would suggest that 2.2.2 could be
> improved in 200x. I'm not suggesting that the practice change, but
> 2.2.2 could probably be re-worded (i.e. not calling it a *stack*
> signature since the notation describes more than the stack signature).

I look forward to receiving your revised paragraph(s).

-- 
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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