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Re: \s

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: \s
Date 2015-06-09 17:53 +1000
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Bernd Paysan wrote:
> HAA wrote:
> >> Block remainder skipping is usually called \\, but Gforth doesn't have
> >> it, because very few people use blocks ;-).
> >
> > Blocks are still in 200x ?
>
> Yes.  It always was an optional wordset, but we managed as last-minute
> change to drop the "if you have the file wordset, you also must have the
> block wordset" from ANS Forth.
>
> So you now can have a standard Forth without block wordset, but the standard
> file wordset.

So if  \\  were ever to be standardized it could not ignore blocks :)

> ...
> I've a block->file converter, which emits a linefeed character at the end of
> each block (in an empty line).  I'd then implement \\ to skip until that
> linefeed character, so that you simply can convert a block file into a
> stream file, and it still works including all \\ comments.
>
> If you don't have a linefeed in your file, it will then end the current
> file.

What of the LOAD THRU --> etc commands originally present in the block file?
These will require manual conversion before the resulting text file will work.
Dealing with \\ would be least of my concerns.

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      Re: \s hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-30 11:45 -0700
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  Re: \s Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-05-30 20:32 +0100
    Re: \s hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-31 21:48 -0700
      Re: \s Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-06-01 08:27 +0100
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  Re: \s Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-05-30 22:42 +0200
  Re: \s Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-05-30 22:40 +0200
    Re: \s josv@planet.nl - 2015-05-30 14:12 -0700
    Re: \s "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-06-03 15:10 +1000
      Re: \s Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-06-03 13:58 +0200
        Re: \s "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-06-05 21:42 +1000
  Re: \s albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-05-31 14:46 +0000
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      Re: \s albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-06-01 10:58 +0000
  Re: \s Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-05-31 21:04 +0100
    Re: \s Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-05-31 22:14 +0200
      Re: \s "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-06-01 13:44 +1000
        Re: \s Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-06-01 12:17 +0200
          Re: \s "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-06-03 12:55 +1000
            Re: \s Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-06-03 16:39 +0200
              Re: \s "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-06-05 21:36 +1000
                Re: \s Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-06-05 13:54 +0200
                Re: \s "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-06-13 16:20 +1000
                Re: \s coos <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-06-13 21:34 +0200
                Re: \s "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-06-16 20:51 +0100
                Re: \s Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-06-17 01:06 -0700
                Re: \s coos <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-06-17 16:15 +0200
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                Re: \s Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-06-08 01:10 +0200
                Re: \s anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-06-08 07:56 +0000
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                Re: \s "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-06-09 17:53 +1000
                Re: \s Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-06-09 23:40 +0200
                Re: \s hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-06-13 22:46 -0700
                Re: \s coos <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-06-14 17:01 +0200
                Re: \s hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-06-14 10:32 -0700
                Re: \s coos <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-06-14 17:00 +0200
            Re: \s Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-06-05 05:13 -0700
              Re: \s Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-06-05 14:37 +0200
                Re: \s Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-06-05 10:28 -0700
      Re: \s "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-06-09 17:51 +1000

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