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Re: RfD: Interpret S\"

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m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl wrote:
> As the size of an S" or S\" buffer is unlimited, I don't think
> it matters that you can have more than one of them.

The standard only requires the buffer to be 80 characters long, not 
unlimited.  So it's essentially 80 more characters to be wasted on a 
precious embedded system...

The solution I've used on Gforth EC is that S" in interpretation mode 
actually just returns the input buffer space, so it doesn't live longer than 
the current line.  This works just fine, and it even would allow a RENAME-
FILE, if Gforth EC had the file word-set (it doesn't, but using S" in 
interpretation mode is still a good idea).  In so far as I don't claim that 
Gforth EC implements the File wordset, the S" is "standard", because its 
interpretation semantics is undefined.  The choice is the one I think is 
most reasonable on an embedded system.  S\" is not implemented, and never 
will (on Gforth EC), it wastes way too much precious memory to be 
implemented.

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

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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
      Re: RfD: Interpret S\" Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-03-04 02:46 +0100
    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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