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| From | "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: DON'T |
| Date | 2014-06-01 00:14 -0400 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
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On Sat, 31 May 2014 23:35:45 -0400, Elizabeth D. Rather
<erather@forth.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/14 11:58 AM, Rod Pemberton wrote:
>> Also, not to be finicky, but would you really put an apostrophe
>> in the name of a FORTH word? Yes, we have ' (tick) ['] but otherwise
>> ...
>
> Why on earth not? Special characters may be used where they have
> suggested meanings (' = XT, . = display, , = compile, etc.) but they
> also are part of common English. If you were coding DON'T it would look
> pretty funny without its apostrophe! With it, it's more suggestive.
>
:-) OK.
(To answer the question, just trivial typeability, readability.)
Of course, I wouldn't recommend defining words with lots of ticks...
' '' ''' '''' ''''' '''''' '''''''
Technically, that could be a program in Forth... ;-)
So could smileys:
: :-) ." Smile!" ;
RP
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