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Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth

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On 6/16/2017 1:22 PM, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 11:47:31 AM UTC-7, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
>> On 6/14/17 4:47 AM, Cecil Bayona wrote:
>>> IF THEN ELSE only works inside a definition, the looping words BEGIN END
>>> also work inside a definition only, it's not a serious limit once you
>>> get used to it.
>>
>> Yes, in general control structure words (loops and conditionals) are
>> compile-only. There have been some Forths that make them work on the
>> command line, but it never really caught on.
> 
> OpenForth is the only Forth system I've ever heard of that did this.
> 
> OpenForth was one of Forth Inc.'s many failures that gave the entire Forth community a black-eye. Elizabeth Rather is personally to blame for this!
> 

The name escapes me but there are other Forth that allow multi-line 
keyboard definitions and control loops outside a definition and it's a 
nice feature, illegal in ANS Forth since they only have compile behavior 
allowed.

-- 
Cecil - k5nwa

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"Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth christopherdumas@gmail.com - 2017-06-14 07:22 -0700
  Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-06-14 09:47 -0500
    Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-06-14 08:47 -1000
      Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-06-16 11:22 -0700
        Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-06-16 20:31 +0200
          Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-06-16 16:29 -1000
        Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-06-16 15:38 -0500
          Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-06-16 18:12 -0700
          Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth peter.m.falth@gmail.com - 2017-06-17 15:10 -0700
            Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-06-18 00:50 +0000
  Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-06-14 14:47 +0000
    Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-06-14 16:16 +0000
      Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth julian.fondren@endurance.com - 2017-06-14 09:34 -0700
      Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-06-16 10:20 +1000
        Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-06-17 17:50 +0000
          Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-06-17 12:11 -0700
  Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth hum9 <obi65537@gmail.com> - 2017-06-14 18:12 +0300
    Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then inSwiftForth "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-06-14 16:21 +0000
      Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then inSwiftForth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-06-14 09:37 -0700
        Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then inSwiftForth christopherdumas@gmail.com - 2017-06-14 10:48 -0700
  Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-06-14 09:10 -0700
  Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth The Beez <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2017-06-16 01:47 -0700
  Re: "Control structure mismatch" with simple if-else-then in SwiftForth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-06-17 14:55 +1000

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