Re: [colorforth] Dare I say ANS!

["Howerd Oakford" <howerd.oakford@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Samuel,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel A. Falvo II" <kc5tja@xxxxxxxx>
To: <colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [colorforth] Dare I say ANS!


[snip - answered in another post ]

> > > ?dup          ????
> >
> > ?DUP is ISO
>
> Sure it's ISO, but it's not part of the compiler's peep-hole optimization
> scheme.  However, I would like to point out that Chuck doesn't
> particularly like words that return a variable number of results on the
> stack.  Indeed, they put dataflow-based optimizers into fits.
?dup in colorForth certainly does not return a variable number of stack
arguments.
It is not the same as ANS ?DUP.

Regards

Howerd


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