Re: RfD: Interpret S\"

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: RfD: Interpret S\"
Date	2014-02-26 11:53 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>For interactive use I'd
>be very tempted just to allocate buffers and throw them all away on an
>ABORT, but I'm not proposing that such a thing should be standard.

Throwing away on ABORT would be non-standard indeed (although I doubt
that many would notice).

"Just allocate" works fine in practice, though.

- anton
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RfD: Interpret S\" "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2014-02-25 01:14 +0000
  Re: RfD: Interpret S\" "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-25 08:26 +0000
  Re: RfD: Interpret S\" stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-02-25 09:29 +0000
    Re: RfD: Interpret S\" m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2014-02-25 03:43 -0800
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    Re: RfD: Interpret S\" albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-25 12:25 +0000
    Re: RfD: Interpret S\" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-26 11:00 +0000
      Re: RfD: Interpret S\" stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-02-26 15:18 +0000
        Re: RfD: Interpret S\" "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-26 08:28 -1000
      Re: RfD: Interpret S\" Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2014-02-26 12:33 -0800
        Re: RfD: Interpret S\" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-27 15:00 +0000
  Re: RfD: Interpret S\" Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-25 04:55 -0600
    Re: RfD: Interpret S\" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-26 11:53 +0000

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