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Re: What is the word to break a do while loop?

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hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 10:44:03 PM UTC-7, HAA wrote:
> > hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 11:29:51 PM UTC-7, HAA wrote:
> > [...]
> > If there was a faster or more space efficient way than multiple WHILE I would use it.
> > Not sure what you mean by BRANCH.  There's one in ELSE but its use with multiple
> > WHILE is optional and rarely needed in my experience.
>
> I meant 0BRANCH --- in the WHILE.
>
> Actually, now that I think about it, WHILE has one 0BRANCH, but IF EXIT THEN has a
> 0BRANCH (the IF) plus an EXIT --- so my technique is slightly slower. On the MiniForth,
> calling a colon word was very fast, but this isn't necessarily true on other Forths ---
> so, putting the loop in its own colon word can make my technique yet slower.
>
> As a practical matter, we are talking about a few microseconds difference here, so it
> doesn't really matter very much.
>
> I think my technique results in much more readable code than the ANS-Forth
> multiple-WHILE technique due to ANS-Forth requiring THEN after the REPEAT which is
> pretty baffling --- ANS-Forth is gratuitously complicated and generally baffling ---
> ANS-Forth is just a problem that has to be worked around.

UNTIL/REPEAT ... THEN is apt indicating the multiple exit points which
users may exploit.  Use in Forth predates ANS (Thinking Forth, cmFORTH).

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  Re: What is the word to break a do while loop? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-02-04 01:53 -0800
  Re: What is the word to break a do while loop? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-02-04 02:15 -0800
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    Re: What is the word to break a do while loop? "Rod Pemberton" <buzz@notnotnontnooatno.cmm> - 2015-02-04 18:50 -0500
    Re: What is the word to break a do while loop? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-04 18:29 -0800
      Re: What is the word to break a do while loop? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-04 18:43 -0800
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    Re: What is the word to break a do while loop? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-02-04 18:36 -0800
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