2022-02-03 08:04:35 <veltas      > joe9: The last section in Thinking FORTH (free PDF available from forth.com, comes with swiftforth and might be a separate download too)
2022-02-03 08:04:51 <veltas      > is on naming conventions, they list both !word and word! as possibilities
2022-02-03 08:05:14 <veltas      > Their examples are !data and b! so maybe they prefer prefix with ! for longer names?
2022-02-03 08:05:24 <veltas      > I don't know, I personally use word! consistently
2022-02-03 08:14:45 <joe9        > veltas, thanks.
2022-02-03 08:15:14 <joe9        > someone is working on the latest version of thinking forth. Do you if he hangs out in this channel?
2022-02-03 08:28:10 <veltas      > I don't know
2022-02-03 08:28:46 <veltas      > For me word! makes sense because it roughly replaces `word !`
2022-02-03 08:29:00 <veltas      > The same way `2/` replaces `2 /` etc
2022-02-03 09:30:50 <joe9        > yes, I like to think the same way too.
2022-02-03 09:34:45 <veltas      > Starting to find I just turn syntax highlighting off all the time
2022-02-03 09:35:07 <veltas      > It's mildly useful when it works, and so incredibly distracting when it's wrong, and I find I don't really need it
2022-02-03 09:47:44 <joe9        > that is what sam/acme do
2022-02-03 09:55:48 <potatoalienof13> does anyone else find it funny that ANS forth includes a "forth" word?
2022-02-03 09:57:13 <MrMobius    > does the highlighting not work that well?
2022-02-03 10:29:01 <veltas      > I plan to write forth stuff to create documents in this format https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf
2022-02-03 10:29:14 <veltas      > Probably will be my first big project after writing my x86-64 forth
2022-02-03 10:29:44 <veltas      > That and HTML I guess
2022-02-03 10:30:07 <veltas      > We need a forth replacement for TeX/troff
2022-02-03 10:32:53 <veltas      > MrMobius: I don't think you can do 'good' forth highlighting, my vim highlighter was a pretty reasonable attempt
2022-02-03 10:32:57 <veltas      > But I don't want to use it
2022-02-03 10:33:11 <veltas      > And likewise vim can't even highlight C properly
2022-02-03 10:57:20 <f-a         > why not, veltas
2022-02-03 10:57:42 <veltas      > Why not what?
2022-02-03 14:03:16 <lagash      > veltas: I escaped the *roff rabbit hole, I'll stick with LaTeX for now
2022-02-03 14:03:47 <lagash      > I might use for things other than books, though
2022-02-03 16:48:41 <dave0       > i think i found a way to write `exit` in sectorforth, similar to `r>`, so it doesn't have to be a primitive
2022-02-03 18:07:30 <dave0       > yup
2022-02-03 18:08:09 <dave0       > `exit` doesn't need to be a primitive in sectorforth, you can write it by fiddling with the return stack directly
2022-02-03 18:08:19 <dave0       > that saves some bytes! :-)