Re: ColorForth - another dead end?

From	"Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: ColorForth - another dead end?
Date	2015-05-30 09:27 +0100
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on 30/05/2015 06:22:27, Raimond Dragomir wrote:
> Tell me how can you do that in Forth. The big problem is that first x
> has offset 0 and second x has offset of sizeof(int). Still, C has no
> problem in seeing this.
> 
> As Hugh says, in Forth it's just impossible. 

In Forth it's always possible. Consider using a wordlist as an object
container; then X in one can be distinct from the X in another. This is
how the NEON/MOPS object systems, an example of which is in Win32Forth,
provides scope for its private variables.

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ColorForth - another dead end? borota@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 12:22 -0700
  Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 14:00 -0700
    Re: ColorForth - another dead end? borota@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 16:18 -0700
      Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 16:45 -0700
      Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-05-24 14:50 -1000
        Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 18:12 -0700
          Re: ColorForth - another dead end? onewhohopes@gmail.com - 2015-05-28 13:00 -0700
            Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-28 18:55 -0700
            Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-29 00:49 -0700
              Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 07:56 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-05-29 15:04 +0000
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 10:03 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 10:15 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-29 19:28 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-05-30 12:34 +0000
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-29 19:19 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 22:30 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Rod Pemberton" <fork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-05-30 00:14 -0400
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 22:22 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-05-30 09:27 +0100
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-30 02:05 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-05-30 10:21 +0100
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-30 04:08 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-30 07:43 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-30 09:42 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-30 10:25 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-30 22:36 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-31 16:38 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-05-31 09:11 +0100
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 11:31 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-06-01 13:21 +0000
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 08:18 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 09:07 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 23:31 -0700
                Field name overloading (was: ColorForth - another dead end?) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-06-02 09:47 +0000
                Re: Field name overloading (was: ColorForth - another dead end?) humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 13:07 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 08:20 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Rod Pemberton" <fork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-05-30 15:34 -0400
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-29 22:55 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-30 00:54 -0700
              Re: ColorForth - another dead end? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-05-30 17:20 +0000
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-05-31 15:17 +0000
        Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Hannu Vuolasaho <vuokkosetae@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 10:06 +0300
        Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-25 11:11 -0700
          Re: ColorForth - another dead end? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 14:22 -0400
            Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-05-25 14:57 -1000
              Re: ColorForth - another dead end? borota@gmail.com - 2015-05-25 20:42 -0700
              Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-29 19:46 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Rod Pemberton" <fork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-05-30 00:03 -0400
  Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-24 21:51 -0700
    Re: ColorForth - another dead end? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-05-25 11:17 +0000
  Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 01:50 -0700
    Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-25 02:11 -0700
  Re: ColorForth - another dead end? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-05-25 14:11 +0000

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