Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.forth > #19483

Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words

Show all headers | View raw

Mark Wills wrote: <fc0fab00-52f6-4a69-9e09-cdb4589f03a0@e11g2000vbv.googlegroups.com>
> The spec uses ( "<spaces>name" -- ) to indicate parsing.
>
> Okay, agreed. But would you agree that that is confusing? It is on the
> left side of a stack diagram, implying that something (whatever it is)
> needs to be on the stack prior to invocation, but that's not the case
> at all!

No, it's not confusing at all.  The left side is inputs, the right side
is outputs.  The quotes indicate that it is NOT on the stack, but is
parsed from the input string, where it *does* need to be present prior
to invoking the word.

--Josh

Back to comp.lang.forth | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 05:38 -0800
  Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-05 06:09 -0800
    Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 06:29 -0800
      Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-05 07:02 -0800
        Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 07:17 -0800
          Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2013-02-05 21:07 +0000
  Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-02-05 18:18 +0100
    Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 13:54 -0800
      Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-05 14:02 -1000
        Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 23:19 -0800
          Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-06 06:59 -0800
        Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-06 15:34 +0000
      Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 20:48 -0500
        Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 23:17 -0800
          Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-02-06 00:01 -0800
            Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-06 01:02 -0800
            Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-02-06 04:24 -0500
        Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-02-06 07:39 -0500
      Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2013-02-11 08:07 +0000
        Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-11 07:10 -0800
          Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-02-11 15:51 -0800
            Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-11 23:05 -0800
              Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-11 22:03 -1000
          Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2013-02-13 07:39 +0000
            Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 00:23 -0800
              Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2013-02-13 18:08 +0000
  Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-02-09 13:49 -0800
    Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-02-10 00:17 +0100
      Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-02-09 17:20 -0800
      Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2013-02-11 08:29 +0000
        Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-11 14:27 +0000

csiph-web