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Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym`

From Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym`
Date 2015-11-27 19:22 +0000
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On 27/11/2015 19:18, Gerry Jackson wrote:
> On 27/11/2015 16:57, Albert van der Horst wrote:
>> Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> Anton Ertl wrote:
>>
>>>> I think the solution is to have FIND-NAME ( c-addr u -- nt | 0 ) and
>>>> something like Gforth's (SEARCH-WORDLIST) ( c-addr u wid -- nt | 0 )
>>>> (but with a better name).
>>
>>> I'm suggesting
>>
>>> FIND-NAME-IN ( c-addr u wid -- nt | 0 )
>>
>> Everything with NAME in it is bad. It is meant to be searching for a
>> NAME-token (which is a bad name, should be dea) but it is interpreted
>> as looking for the *name* `` c-addr u''.
>> Apart from having two hyphens this ambiguousness kills it for me.
>>
>>> as in "find name in <wordlist>".  (search-wordlist) is too ugly and
>>> way too
>>> useful to stay that ugly ;-).
>>
>> I go for FOUND and (FOUND).
>>
>
> I've called it FIND-NAME in my system because that's what it does. FOUND
> is awful.
>
>
Calling it FOUND presupposes that the name will be found. I don't like 
INCLUDED either but we're stuck with it.

-- 
Gerry

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description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Marcos Cruz <use_the_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-11-23 20:47 +0000
  Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-23 22:55 +0100
    Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Marcos Cruz <use_the_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-11-23 22:20 +0000
      Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-24 05:12 +0000
    Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Marcos Cruz <use_the_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-11-24 17:29 +0000
      Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-25 02:46 +0100
        Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 22:46 -0800
          Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 01:39 -0800
            Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 02:37 -0800
          Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-25 13:13 +0000
            Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 09:06 -0800
              Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-25 18:33 +0000
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 23:01 -0800
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-26 07:15 +0000
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 02:30 -0800
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-26 13:44 +0000
            Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-25 17:27 +0000
              Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-26 07:56 +0000
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-26 11:25 +0000
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-27 01:36 +0100
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-27 16:57 +0000
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-27 19:18 +0000
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-27 19:22 +0000
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 11:48 -0800
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-28 11:07 +0000
                Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Matthias Trute <matthias.trute@gmail.com> - 2015-11-28 12:34 -0800
      Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-11-26 18:43 -0800
        Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` Marcos Cruz <use_the_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-12-05 03:35 +0000
    Re: description of Forth-2012's `synonym` hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-11-26 14:39 -0800

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