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Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention
Date 2016-07-04 13:59 +1000
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ruvim.pinka@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 5:25:37 PM UTC+3, krishna...@ccreweb.org wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Proposal:
> > --------
> >
> > Introduce a synonym, UD< , into the Forth 20xx standard for the existing standard
> > word DU< and deprecate the use of DU< .
>
>
> I'm against this variant because to be consistent with this convention you also need to
> rename:
>
>   'D0<' into '0D<'
>   'D2*' into '2D*'
>   'D2/' into '2D/'

Agreed.  All the 'D' words in ANS begin with .... D.  UD. would break that convention.

> It is better to change representation ud into du in stack diagrams (the only one worth
> argument).

I've not heard of anyone confusing a word name with a type designator.  The existing
conventions have been around a very long time.

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RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2016-07-02 07:25 -0700
  Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-07-02 10:01 -0500
  Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention ruvim.pinka@gmail.com - 2016-07-02 12:43 -0700
    Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 01:05 -0400
      Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention ruvim.pinka@gmail.com - 2016-07-03 00:31 -0700
        Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 11:54 -0400
    Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-07-05 00:19 +1000
      Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2016-07-04 07:37 -0700
        Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-07-07 13:01 +1000
          Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2016-07-09 08:40 -0700
            Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-07-10 18:23 +1000
              Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2016-07-10 08:27 -0700
    Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2016-07-04 13:59 +1000
      Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2016-07-03 22:42 -0700
    Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2016-07-03 21:09 -0700
      Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention ruvim.pinka@gmail.com - 2016-07-10 20:37 -0700
      Re: RfD: Unsigned Double Words Naming Convention ruvim.pinka@gmail.com - 2016-07-10 21:07 -0700

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