Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: EuroForth 2015 paper deadline approaching Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 21:17:21 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <2015Sep20.104537@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <998d0f99-93b4-4d44-ba3a-6d96cb2b91d1@googlegroups.com> <9a8983c2-20ad-4538-852e-ca7bee0cb9a3@googlegroups.com> <5b6cea81-03f7-4619-b8ec-6e691a2e21bf@googlegroups.com> <87lhagzqft.fsf@nightsong.com> <563884c0.196799270@news.eternal-september.org> <2015Nov3.122800@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <5638a55e.205149348@news.eternal-september.org> <2015Nov3.180326@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <56390681.17661902@news.eternal-september.org> 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:43244 On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:29:01 -0500, Stephen Pelc wrote: > I have publicly stated before that it is useful to be able to tick > all words that have a header. I happen to like that ability, but I'm not a Forth programmer. It would also seem to be a historical trait of interpreted Forths that all of the words in the dictionary are exposed to the user. Is there any reason, other than SMUDGE and NONAME functionality, why a word shouldn't be ' tick-ed ? E.g., safety, security? Why shouldn't IF be ' tick-ed? It's XT can be COMPILE, or EXECUTEd or viewed. What harm does any of that do? So, I currently don't recognize a reason to _not_ allow the ' tick-ing IF. Sorry, those question probably should've been asked of Anton ... Rod Pemberton -- When El Chapo is the most beloved man in Mexico and Trump is the most hated, it shows that Mexico is truly fouled up.