Re: [colorforth] Dare I say ANS!

["John A. Peters" <japeters@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can dare to be like Chuck.  Make your own custom version, just to suit
you.

JP


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Slicker" <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [colorforth] Dare I say ANS!


> colorForth is defined to a good extent by which it defies convention.
>
> I don't find the renaming benefitial on its own merit.
>
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Howerd Oakford wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I would like to make colorForth more standard. Some words make
colorForth
> > uneccessarily difficult for someone used to more conventional Forths :
> >
> > colorForth   ANS/conventional
> > --------------------------------
> > -                  invert
> > copy            blk @ swap copy
> > pad             n/a
> > erase          erases n blocks starting at blk @
> > mark          gild
> > i                 i 1 -
> > ?dup          ????
> > accept        ????
> >
> > I think each word must be judged individually - how about :
> >
> > rename - as invert
> > : negate  invert 1+ ;
> > : -  negate + ;
> > This restores compatibility. It is interesting to note that since
"invert"
> > fits into 28 bits, source size is not affected.
> >
> > rename pad as kpad:
> > It begins a list of words to execute for each key, so a ":" seems right.
> > : pad 2000 block ;
> > The old idea of pad is still useful, I think.
> >
> > rename erase as bclr ( block clear )
> > : erase  ... the usual loop ... ;
> >
> > rename mark as gild ( do Forth, Inc. have copyright on that? ;)
> >
> > Make i return an index from 0 to n-1 instead of 1 to n. I presume this
was
> > intentional - does any one know why?
> >
> > ?dup - what is this?
> > accept - ditto -
> > use diferent names for these....
> >
> > I think we should use whatever the ANS form is for 1@, 2@ etc ( c@ w@ I
> > think ).
> > Does anyone know if "port fetch" has an ANS name? polyForth uses INPUT
and
> > OUTPUT, p@ and p! is fine by me.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Howerd
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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