[23] 2016-10-01 12:47:01 ruv wrote:

requestClarification - Source of a string

Should ACCEPT receive a string from the STDIN (standard input) or from the keyboard (as KEY word does)?

[r32] 2016-09-08 14:22:36 BerndPaysan replies:

proposal - WLSCOPE -- wordlists switching made easier

The committee discussed this proposal and we came up with a one-liner that provides the same one-shot functionality without changes to the internals of header creation. It only requires quality of implementation on : definitions that they go into the vocabulary that is current at the time of : instead of ; (which all quality implementations done by the committee members do).

: in ( "voc" "defining-word" -- )
  get-current >r also ' execute definitions previous ' execute r> set-current ;

Use would be

in gui : init-gl ( .. -- .. ) ... ;
in gui variable foo
in gui defer bar

We perceive this solution to be more elegant (quite portable one-liner with existing words instead of changing some internals), but nonetheless thank you for pointing out the need for this functionality. Of course, it requires quality implementations for : to work, so we encourage people to implement their : without relying on the ambiguous condition.

[r34] 2016-09-15 13:47:11 AntonErtl replies:

proposal - DEFER this not :-)

We discussed your request for a feature at the standards meeting. On behalf of the committee, here is our reaction:

The committee knows how to implement forward declarations without the extra fetch required by deferred words. However, the benefit (a minor speedup in a relatively rare case) does not justify the cost in our opinion.

[r35] 2016-09-16 10:55:30 enoch replies:

proposal - DEFER this not :-)

Thanks, I respect the committee's position but I beg to differ:

Readability of the source code is my main concern. Using defer to execute forward referenced target word requires introducing a new dictionary name where an undisciplined programmer may choose a name that would not be automatically associated with the target.

My proposal in a nutshell is to allow marking of forward references and let the implementer come up with his own "magic" how to go about it. Marking is not uncommon in Forth, ['] is a case in point.

Thanks, Enoch.

P/S If the committee objects to using Unicode marks, ellipsis ( …) in my implementation, so be it but I would remind everyone that we live in the 21st century and Forth inventor has long gone into color :-)

[r38] 2016-10-01 18:41:58 BerndPaysan replies:

requestClarification - Source of a string

ACCEPT typically uses KEY (or EKEY) and thus should get the input from the same source as KEY. On a hosted console Forth, that's usually STDIN, but if you run the Forth in a GUI windows, it's the keyboard input events from that window.