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Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ?

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Paul Rubin wrote:
> rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> > As long as <ROT and ROT> aren't presently used for anything,...
> > I truly can't believe anyone would give a hoot about one extra
> > character to type.  It's more an issue of why bother thinking about
> > it?
>
> It's not the extra character, it's that I can never remember which
> direction is ROT and which is -ROT, and I suspect it's the same for
> (some) other users too.  But it's not worth making a change this late in
> the game.

Given Forth deals with items that are on *top* of the stack, that's going
to be predominant purpose and direction of stack jugglers.  OVER SWAP
ROT DUP ROLL PICK etc all serve to bring items to the top of the stack
where the action is.  Less used and typically *not* in the Standard are
functions that do the reverse, namely move items *away* from the top
of the stack.  Hence the '-' prefix suggesting that ideally you should 'not'
have to use this word.

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Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-05-13 18:00 -0400
  Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-13 15:19 -0700
  Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-05-13 13:21 -1000
  Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-14 11:23 +1000
  Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-05-14 00:34 -0700
    Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-15 10:12 +1000
    Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-14 23:43 -0400
      Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-15 13:47 +1000
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-05-15 09:51 +0000
      Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-05-14 21:42 -0700
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-14 22:17 -0700
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-05-15 17:57 -0400
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 15:49 -0700
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-16 02:16 -0400
              Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-05-16 19:54 -0700
                Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-17 08:11 +0200
                Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-05-17 11:09 +0000
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-05-16 03:53 -0500
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 01:21 -0400
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-05-15 00:30 -0500
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-14 22:40 -0700
              Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 02:06 -0700
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-05-15 22:45 -0700
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-15 09:05 +0200
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 02:11 -0700
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-05-15 09:52 +0000
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-15 05:48 +0000
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-05-15 05:14 -0500
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-05-15 11:40 +0000
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 02:03 -0700
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-05-15 21:24 +0200
        Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-16 09:57 +1000
          Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-05-16 08:09 +0200
            Re: Is it -2ROT or 2-ROT ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-17 00:54 +1000

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