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From: "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm>
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Subject: Re: top 10 words which should *not* be in a Forth dictionary?
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 18:40:49 -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.c=
om>
>> wrote:

>>> ROT and -ROT. As descriptive words they suck. Neither of them descri=
be
>>> 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 directi=
on,
>> incremented or decremented, the stack pointer is adjusted for PUSH an=
d  =

>> 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 =E2=80=9Crote=E2=80=9D 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