Re: top 10 words which should not be in a Forth dictionary?

From	"Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: top 10 words which should not be in a Forth dictionary?
Date	2014-03-08 18:40 -0500
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On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 17:36:09 -0500, Elizabeth D. Rather  
<erather@forth.com> wrote:
> On 3/8/14 12:20 PM, Rod Pemberton wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 06:27:26 -0500, Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com>
>> wrote:

>>> ROT and -ROT. As descriptive words they suck. Neither of them describe
>>> the direction in which they rotate. Every freaking time I need them I
>>> need to look them up. Why can't they be called be LROT and RROT.
>>
>> For x86, I can never remember when, before or after, or which direction,
>> incremented or decremented, the stack pointer is adjusted for PUSH and  
>> POP.
>> So, I use a mnemonic abbreviation, POPIA - POP Increments After.
>>
>> -ROT pops the 3rd to the top.  That sort of rhymes...  ROT pushes.
>
> Um, that's backwards.
>
> 6.1.2160 ROT “rote” CORE  ( x1 x2 x3 -- x2 x3 x1 )
> Rotate the top three stack entries.
>
> ROT brings the 3rd item to the top.
>

Heh!  So true...  That makes a mnemonic abbreviation easier:

ROTPT - ROT Pops (to) Top


Rod Pemberton

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top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-20 16:30 -0500
  Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? AKK <akk@nospam.org> - 2014-02-20 23:56 +0100
    Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-02-21 02:40 +0100
    Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-20 21:17 -0800
    Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Syd Rumpo <usenet@nononono.co.uk> - 2014-02-21 13:58 +0000
  Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-02-21 11:04 +0000
  Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 17:10 +0100
    Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-22 13:15 -0600
      Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-22 21:46 +0000
        Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-23 15:42 +0000
      Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-23 15:46 +0000
      Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Assad Ebrahim <assadebrahim2000@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 12:08 -0800
        Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-03 20:23 +0000
        Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-03 15:58 -0600
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          Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-06 18:01 +0000
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                Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-07 06:43 -0600
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    Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Assad Ebrahim <assadebrahim2000@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 22:59 -0800
      Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-03-08 08:33 +0100
      Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-03-07 23:21 -1000
      Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-08 04:30 -0600
  top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-03-08 03:27 -0800
    Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-08 05:36 -0600
      Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-03-08 15:39 -0800
    Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-08 14:02 +0000
    Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-08 17:20 -0500
      Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-03-08 12:36 -1000
        Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-08 18:40 -0500

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