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Re: DON'T

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From "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm>
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Subject Re: DON'T
Date Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:14:32 -0400
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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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          Re: DON'T "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-06-17 08:05 +0100
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              Re: DON'T Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 01:54 -0700
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        Re: DON'T BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2014-06-16 15:39 -0700
  Re: DON'T "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-31 17:58 -0400
    Re: DON'T Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-31 15:15 -0700
      Re: DON'T Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-05-31 15:21 -0700
    Re: DON'T "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-05-31 17:35 -1000
      Re: DON'T "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-01 00:14 -0400
    Re: DON'T hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-06-01 19:14 -0700
  Re: DON'T Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-31 15:26 -0700
  Re: DON'T chitselb <chitselb@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 06:02 -0700
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        Re: DON'T chitselb <chitselb@gmail.com> - 2014-06-05 14:42 -0700
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