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Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth)

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth)
Date 2015-07-09 20:12 +1000
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jfong@ms4.hinet.net wrote:
> Gerard Sontagæ-¼ 2015å¹´7æo^8æ-¥æ~YæoYä¸? UTC+8ä¸<å^8æT,22å^?30ç§'寫é"ï¼s
> > Hello,
> > Here is a very short session with: SwiftForth **EVALUATION**
> >
> > >>SwiftForth i386-Win32 3.5.6 26-Oct-2014
> > >>hex  ok
> > >>-7f  ok
> > >>.U .U ?
> > >>U. 7EFDE000 Stack underflow
> > >>-7f  ok
> > >>U. FFFFFF81  ok
> >
> > I know that .U do not exist but is this a reason to :
> > 1/ Give wrong answer after U.
> > 2/ throw an exception
> >
> > Your comment are welcome.
>
> I hate this behavior of Forth trandition. One accidently typing error may cause many
> minutes lost to rebuild the stack picture during debug. There is no reason to clear the
> stack without our permission after failing on searching a name in the dictionary. They
> are irrelevent. Don't know why everyone takes it deservedly.

Because it's a non-issue.

If you have so many items to type that losing them becomes a problem,
then it's time to commit them to a screen and use LOAD to execute it.

What?  You don't use screens?  Too bad :)

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What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) Gerard Sontag <gerardsontag@gmail.com> - 2015-07-08 05:22 -0700
  Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-07-08 05:49 -0700
  Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) coos <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-07-08 14:57 +0200
    Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) Gerard Sontag <gerardsontag@gmail.com> - 2015-07-08 06:20 -0700
  Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-07-08 09:00 -1000
  Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) jfong@ms4.hinet.net - 2015-07-08 17:37 -0700
    Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-07-08 18:01 -0700
    Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-07-08 15:56 -1000
    Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-09 05:12 +0000
      Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) djc <ciesinger@gmx.net> - 2015-07-09 00:52 -0700
        Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-09 08:54 +0000
          Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-09 03:50 -0700
            Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-09 13:52 +0000
              Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-09 09:20 -0700
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-09 17:13 +0000
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-09 10:45 -0700
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-10 05:51 +0000
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-09 23:11 -0700
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 01:09 -0700
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-10 01:20 -0700
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-10 07:55 +0000
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-10 01:53 -0700
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-07-10 07:53 -1000
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-07-11 02:08 -0700
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 02:32 -0700
                Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-11 15:06 +0000
      Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-07-09 08:22 -1000
        Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-07-10 05:55 +0000
    Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-07-09 20:12 +1000
      Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) coos <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-07-09 15:34 +0200
    Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 14:16 +0300
  Re: What is wrong with U.? (SwiftForth) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 02:20 -0400

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