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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 |
| Date | 2016-01-07 08:47 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| Message-ID | <2016Jan7.094758@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <n6ijat$fr5$1@dont-email.me> <20160106104610.3c60187e@t500> <daeee45d-709b-43d3-99a5-873ffcde5110@googlegroups.com> <2016Jan6.192107@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <d2746fff-e300-4b9f-900b-232aa306a699@googlegroups.com> |
Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> writes:
>On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 7:24:31 PM UTC+1, Anton Ertl wrote:
>> Gforth (with quotations):
>>
>> [: ... ;] 36 base-execute
>>
>> The major advantage of this is not the brevity, but that it restores
>> BASE even if the quotation is left through an exception (e.g., when
>> the user types ^C).
>
>It might be a nice function, but in the end using it is just another convention that people can choose to follow or not, so it is more like a band-aid over the fundamental problem that BASE is a writable global variable.
Sure, you can still shoot yourself in the foot by changing BASE, but,
in the spirit of Forth, BASE-EXECUTE does not try to eliminate that
possibility. It just offers a safer way to deal with it (contrary to
the spirit of Forth?).
- anton
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DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 15:08 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-01-04 20:54 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 00:48 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 04:40 -0500
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 02:53 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 09:19 -0500
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 08:44 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 11:53 -0500
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 10:28 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 14:12 -0500
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-05 11:16 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 14:58 -0500
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-05 12:03 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 15:10 -0500
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-05 12:36 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 16:34 -0500
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 13:42 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-01-05 16:40 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 18:13 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-01-05 16:27 -1000
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-05 18:59 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 22:47 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-01-05 21:37 -1000
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-06 00:14 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 10:32 +0200
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-06 00:42 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 11:02 +0200
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 01:51 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 12:02 +0200
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com> - 2016-01-06 10:46 +0000
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 12:49 +0200
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 03:12 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-01-06 18:21 +0000
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 22:57 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-01-07 08:47 +0000
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2016-01-06 13:39 +0100
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 14:45 +0200
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-06 12:48 +0000
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Syd Rumpo <usenet@nononono.co.uk> - 2016-01-07 11:09 +0000
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-01-06 22:57 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 no.top.post@gmail.com - 2016-01-14 12:45 +0000
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-01-05 10:37 +0000
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 03:08 -0800
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2016-01-06 12:22 +0100
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-06 13:08 +0000
Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-01-07 03:14 -0500
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