2021-11-09 01:53:25 <veltas      > FORTH is so complicated sometimes I can make progress just staring at it and then thinking about it idly before I come back and refactor/change it
2021-11-09 01:53:56 <veltas      > Like I'll look at some code I'm working on in the morning, not change anything, think about it during the day and then I know what changes to make in the evening
2021-11-09 03:20:39 <eris[m]     > thats a sign of complexity?
2021-11-09 03:25:02 <eris[m]     > isnt that the opposite, easy to reason about?
2021-11-09 03:26:59 <f-a         > if you need to think about it for ages, not that easy
2021-11-09 03:27:14 <f-a         > forth is ace but I wouldn’t call stack manipulation easy to reason about
2021-11-09 03:29:09 <eris[m]     > implications r a funny business but 'during the day' to me implied while doing other things
2021-11-09 03:31:24 <f-a         > hopefully
2021-11-09 03:31:36 <f-a         > «local man stares at colorforth monitor for 8 hours»
2021-11-09 12:40:23 <imode       > veltas: interesting observation. the simpler things are, the harder they are to use.
2021-11-09 13:34:55 <eris[m]     > imode is completely incapable of using a knife
2021-11-09 13:35:17 <imode       > hahahahaha.
2021-11-09 13:35:50 <eris[m]     > theres a lot of ways to use a knife but it takes skill to do so well
2021-11-09 13:36:42 <crc         > good afternoon
2021-11-09 13:41:21 <imode       > allo crc.
2021-11-09 13:50:04 <veltas      > eris[m]: Yep I mean while doing other things
2021-11-09 13:50:10 <veltas      > But it's not 'easy' no
2021-11-09 13:50:44 <veltas      > If I get into a hard problem I'll end up solving it while doing something else often
2021-11-09 13:50:59 <veltas      > Because I sort of subconsciously have it there in back of mind
2021-11-09 13:51:16 <neuro_sys_  > I do come up with solutions when I lay down quite often.
2021-11-09 15:23:55 <neuro_sys_  > Heck, I love work from home.
2021-11-09 17:05:44 <neuro_sys_  > Why is the word being defined hidden until it is terminated?
2021-11-09 17:07:17 <eris[m]     > to allow referencing the old defintion
2021-11-09 17:07:33 <eris[m]     > while defining the new one
2021-11-09 17:07:55 <eris[m]     > : word some complex structure where it's awkward to add a word at the end ;
2021-11-09 17:08:01 <eris[m]     > : word word asecondword ;
2021-11-09 17:08:20 <eris[m]     > i used it a lot w/ recursive words
2021-11-09 17:08:32 <eris[m]     > i had a tail-recursion `;`
2021-11-09 17:08:38 <f-a         > super
2021-11-09 17:08:42 <eris[m]     > which meant it's impossible to add a word after the main loop
2021-11-09 17:08:56 <eris[m]     > so it'd be : word loop-body ;;
2021-11-09 17:09:13 <eris[m]     > : word word post-loopbody here ;