Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)?

From	Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)?
Date	2013-12-18 21:58 +0100
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Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> Sounds more like a question of programming style. In my experience, a
> sequence that's worth factoring has a conceptual name, and may as well
> be a definition. I never saw making definitions as a chore! One common
> approach for naming a major factor of NAME is (NAME), for example. I'd
> much rather see a reference to a name than a long string of code, and if
> you needed to see what the word does, you can use LOCATE on any good
> implementation.

These quotations often go in some sort of what we perceive as control 
structure.  Take TRAVERSE-WORDLIST: It is an implicit loop over the words in 
a wordlist.  WORDS is something like

: words ( -- ) [: .name true ;] current @ traverse-wordlist ;

As the xt passed to traverse-wordlist needs a "continue" flag, we don't want 
to make this trivial composition a named word of its own.  .NAME is fine as 
word of its own, but a .NAME with a true flag returned wouldn't.

Another example: To wrap words which are BASE-sensitive into a secure layer 
that works even when the word crashes in the middle, we use BASE-EXECUTE.  
Usually this is a very simple word like

: dump-byte ( addr -- addr' ) count [: 2 u.r space ;] $10 base-execute ;

or so.  Factoring these two one-liners even further, and giving the snippets 
a name is too much.  If you have a lengthy piece of code, yes, please give 
it a name or more than one.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2013-12-17 23:56 -0800
  Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? mhx@iae.nl - 2013-12-18 01:14 -0800
    Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-18 01:34 -0800
    Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 02:33 -0800
      Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-12-18 14:36 +0100
        Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 06:24 -0800
          Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-12-19 02:54 +0100
            Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 22:12 -0800
      Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? mhx@iae.nl - 2013-12-18 05:43 -0800
  Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-12-18 11:21 +0000
    Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 04:31 -0800
      Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 04:49 -0800
        Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 05:12 -0800
  Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-12-18 08:26 -1000
    Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-18 11:03 -0800
      Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 11:21 -0800
    Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 11:19 -0800
      Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-12-18 10:08 -1000
        Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-12-18 21:58 +0100
          Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-12-19 14:15 +1100
            Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-12-19 13:32 +0000
              Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-12-20 21:07 +1100
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-12-20 12:35 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-12-20 13:02 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-12-22 14:19 +1100
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-12-22 10:15 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-12-24 12:30 +1100
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-12-24 16:48 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-12-28 11:08 +1100
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-12-28 11:40 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-26 18:03 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-26 10:34 -0800
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-27 15:53 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-12-28 17:26 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-28 17:53 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-12-28 18:21 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-29 14:49 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-12-29 20:45 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-30 17:08 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-12-30 20:00 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-12-28 18:04 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-12-28 18:47 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-12-28 19:12 +0000
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-12-28 11:09 +1100
                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-28 13:45 +0000
          Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2013-12-18 19:04 -1000
            Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-19 09:25 +0000
            Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-19 05:00 -0800
        Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2013-12-18 23:41 -0800
        Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com> - 2013-12-19 01:00 -0800
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  Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-19 15:58 +0000
    Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-19 10:05 -0800
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                Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-30 17:04 +0000
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      Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-20 16:56 +0000
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      Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-20 12:41 +0000
        Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-12-20 17:46 +0000
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