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Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting?

From "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting?
Date 2015-10-09 13:46 +0000
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Chris Curl wrote:

> I have seen a 0SP word bandied about, which is easy enough to implement.
> 
>      : 0SP DEPTH ?DUP IF 0 DO DROP LOOP THEN ;

The standard Forth word to clear the stack is "clr".

Oforth:

>2 3 4 .s
[1] (Integer) 4
[2] (Integer) 3
[3] (Integer) 2
ok
>clr .s
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Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 06:30 -0700
  Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-09 13:46 +0000
    Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-10-09 17:35 +0200
  Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 07:08 -0700
    Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-10-09 17:38 +0200
  Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? Ching-Tang Tseng <ilikeforth@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 08:10 -0700
    Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-10-09 17:42 +0200
  Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 08:57 -0700
  Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? Ching-Tang Tseng <ilikeforth@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 08:59 -0700
  Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-09 16:00 +0000
    Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-09 08:38 -1000
      Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 12:31 -0700
        Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-09 10:29 -1000
        Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-10-11 11:51 +1000
  Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? Ching-Tang Tseng <ilikeforth@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 18:28 -0700
    Re: Newbie alert: what is the ANS word for clearing the stack without aborting? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-10-10 22:53 -0700

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