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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