2021-12-03 03:13:58 <dave0       > i'm getting there!
2021-12-03 03:14:58 <dave0       > i have successfully compiled and used the flow control stuff! IF ELSE THEN   BEGIN WHILE REPEAT UNTIL AGAIN   all working, all compiled from source!
2021-12-03 03:15:04 <dave0       > very nice
2021-12-03 04:45:30 <dave0       > i learned that REPEAT can be written as AGAIN THEN :-)
2021-12-03 05:18:06 <veltas      > dave0: Yeah the dictionary is pretty much like a stack in the way it grows/shrinks
2021-12-03 05:19:37 <veltas      > Also nice job
2021-12-03 05:19:58 <dave0       > thanks veltas :-)
2021-12-03 05:20:22 <dave0       > it's quite fun to have it actually working!
2021-12-03 05:29:43 <dave0       > the way i was picturing the dictionary as a stack was that it was an array of pointers to the word headers
2021-12-03 05:31:45 <dave0       > so instead of a word header having a flag byte, a length byte, a string for the name, a pointer to the xt, and a link to the next word... a header has a flag byte, a length byte, a string name, and a pointer to the xt... but the pointer to each header is in the stack
2021-12-03 05:33:47 <dave0       > the inspiration came from a story that was comparing languages, and forth was mentioned, and the story pointed out that while most data structures in forth are stacks, the dictionary was an exception... so i thought about it and the dictionary doesn't /have/ to be an exception.. it can be a stack too!
2021-12-03 05:41:41 <dave0       > here's the link: http://canonical.org/~kragen/memory-models/     the comment is under this heading:     Interlude: why is there no Lua, Erlang, or Forth memory model?     this is the comment:      Forth programs often just use parallel arrays, although the Forth dictionary is invariably a linked list.
2021-12-03 08:00:14 <hodbogi     > imode, run yours on top of mine :P
2021-12-03 08:37:27 <crc         > http://forth.works/share/0852f3648c484c8ff61450624daf467d.html is my quick solution to day 3, part 1. (I don't have time to delve into part 2 right now, so that'll have to wait until sometime later)
2021-12-03 16:32:25 <veltas      > crc: Thanks for your efforts, always like reading your retro docs
2021-12-03 16:33:00 <veltas      > I haven't looked at day 3 yet, will probably get to it and do more 'easy' ones in FORTH
2021-12-03 16:42:49 <crc         > part 2 will be a little more difficult; I'll try to get to it at some point, but I don't do much coding on weekends
2021-12-03 17:09:31 <veltas      > Yep me neither lol
2021-12-03 17:09:37 <veltas      > On good weekends sometimes