Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: RfD: Quotations Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:10:16 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <83796b93-b3cb-40ed-9d18-4b3e9cc2f990@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:40997 On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 01:38:39 -0400, wrote: > On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 2:51:16 PM UTC-7, Alex McDonald wrote: >> on 30/07/2015 20:45:18, Bernd Paysan wrote: >> > Wether that's a good idea is part of the debate, and IMHO there's too >> > much debate in that direction. Quotations are some simple syntactic >> > sugar for higher order functions, nothing more. And the first-class >> > element to pass things in Forth is the stack, not outer locals. >> >> Agreed. However, there's a (admittedly remote) chance that the >> conversation may turn up something of interest. > > The reason why Bernd Payson and Alex McDonald believe that all this > debate is a waste of time, is because they already know that the > Payson-faked quotations are going to go into Forth-200x --- they know > this because they asked Leon Wagner for permission and he gave it to > them; this is what is ultimately necessary to get anything into > Forth-200x. > How about you construct test code for John Hayes' core tester or Josh Grams' small-tester.f to prove your quotation method is better or more correct? It shouldn't be too hard for you. Rod Pemberton -- Scientists now say we'll experience a mini-ice in 2030. So, I guess we need more global warming today ...