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Re: Quotations revisited

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Quotations revisited
Date 2014-05-13 11:03 -0700
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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
> ACTIVATE returns immediately from MONITORING after starting
> MONITOR-TASK, which executes the rest of MONITORING asynchronously. ..
> ACTIVATE can be written (very) non-portably on some systems as
> : activate   r> ( Some magic here to turn the return address into an XT) start ;

But "executes the rest of MONITORING asynchronously" instead of using an
xt (in an aux definition if quotations aren't available) just seems
hideous.  Was it aversion to xt's that led to that construction?

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Re: Quotations revisited Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 01:00 -0700
  Re: Quotations revisited Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-13 01:50 -0700
  Re: Quotations revisited Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-05-13 03:51 -0500
    Re: Quotations revisited Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 02:25 -0700
      Re: Quotations revisited Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-05-13 05:08 -0500
        Re: Quotations revisited "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-05-13 07:46 -1000
        Re: Quotations revisited Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-13 11:03 -0700
          Re: Quotations revisited "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-05-13 08:12 -1000
          Re: Quotations revisited Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-05-13 13:22 -0500
  Re: Quotations revisited stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-05-13 09:15 +0000
    Re: Quotations revisited Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 02:39 -0700
      Re: Quotations revisited Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-05-13 05:10 -0500
      Re: Quotations revisited stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-05-13 11:47 +0000
      Re: Quotations revisited Laurent Laborde <kerdezixe@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 19:13 -0700
      Re: Quotations revisited Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-13 19:48 -0700
  Re: Quotations revisited Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 03:43 -0700
    Re: Quotations revisited anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-05-13 12:35 +0000
      Re: Quotations revisited "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-05-13 23:56 +0100
        Re: Quotations revisited anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-05-14 14:15 +0000
          Re: Quotations revisited "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-05-14 20:48 -0400
            Re: Quotations revisited anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-05-15 14:16 +0000
      Re: Quotations revisited Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 23:30 -0700
        Re: Quotations revisited Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-14 00:32 -0700
          Re: Quotations revisited Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2014-05-14 02:02 -0700
            Re: Quotations revisited Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-14 08:02 -0700
              Re: Quotations revisited anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-05-14 15:10 +0000
          Re: Quotations revisited Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-05-14 02:09 -0700
            Re: Quotations revisited Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-05-14 02:14 -0700
              Re: Quotations revisited Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-05-14 02:15 -0700
                Re: Quotations revisited Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-14 08:22 -0700
            Re: Quotations revisited Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-05-14 12:04 +0200
        Re: Quotations revisited Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-05-14 04:11 -0500
        Re: Quotations revisited anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-05-14 14:25 +0000
          Re: Quotations revisited Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-05-14 20:04 +0200
            Re: Quotations revisited anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-05-15 13:50 +0000
              Re: Quotations revisited Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-05-15 16:24 +0200
                Re: Quotations revisited anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-05-15 14:40 +0000
                Re: Quotations revisited Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-05-15 10:18 -0700
          Re: Quotations revisited Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2014-05-14 21:57 -0700

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