2022-11-04 00:26:52 <KipIngram   > wylie39: Some systems have variants of . that will do that.
2022-11-04 00:27:01 <KipIngram   > Say, (.)
2022-11-04 00:27:08 <KipIngram   > But that's not standard, I don't believe.
2022-11-04 00:27:23 <KipIngram   > : (.)  prints with no trailing space ;
2022-11-04 00:27:28 <KipIngram   > : .  (.) space ;
2022-11-04 00:28:34 <KipIngram   > They'd likely use the stuff dave0 cited.
2022-11-04 08:08:34 <olle        > Such a soothing experience, text-to-speech of gforth manual ^^'
2022-11-04 09:22:36 <joe9        > does anyone know when Forth day is?
2022-11-04 09:22:39 <joe9        > Nov 17Th
2022-11-04 09:22:40 <joe9        > ?
2022-11-04 10:05:24 <olle        > Why?
2022-11-04 13:17:23 <crcx        > joe9: November 19th per http://forth.org/svfig/prenext.html
2022-11-04 13:19:11 <thrig       > I would have gone with May 4th for various reasons
2022-11-04 13:19:38 <xyh         > why cforth uses switch and case?
2022-11-04 13:19:42 <xyh         > https://github.com/MitchBradley/cforth
2022-11-04 13:20:12 <xyh         > are there any other ways to implement forth in c?
2022-11-04 13:21:09 <eris[m]     > lots
2022-11-04 13:23:14 <crcx        > what's wrong with switch and case?
2022-11-04 13:24:44 <xyh         > i am thinking about extending forth primitives without editing the big switch
2022-11-04 13:25:04 <xyh         > eris[m]: where can i learn some?
2022-11-04 13:28:43 <eris[m]     > you generally dont want a big switch for primitives
2022-11-04 13:28:54 <eris[m]     > just dictionary stuff
2022-11-04 13:29:08 <eris[m]     > if you want to implement a VM, use a table with computed goto
2022-11-04 13:31:50 <xyh         > i should study cforth better first
2022-11-04 15:33:01 <olle        > `see cells` doesn't work in gforth?
2022-11-04 15:33:54 <eris[m]     > what is see cells
2022-11-04 15:34:14 <thrig       > she cells sea cells by the C shore
2022-11-04 15:42:47 <olle        > :|
2022-11-04 15:44:00 <olle        > And why is mod infix?
2022-11-04 15:44:26 <thrig       > SEE might not do much if it's a blob of ASM for performance reasons
2022-11-04 15:44:48 <olle        > thrig: yeah, but it hang my forth
2022-11-04 15:44:49 <olle        > weird
2022-11-04 18:07:20 <MrMobius    > hmm, you may be able to get away with a switch statement since your C compiler may turn it into a computed goto for you
2022-11-04 18:08:41 <MrMobius    > worth looking at the assembly output or tinkering on godbolt
2022-11-04 18:18:31 <eris[m]     > explicit tail-gotos get 30% speedup even with that optimisation
2022-11-04 18:31:58 <MrMobius    > ya could be depending on the architecture and compiler
2022-11-04 18:38:11 <joe9        > colorforth uses a variant of shannon-fano encoding. Just curious of how the characters would look like using huffman encoding..
2022-11-04 18:38:31 <joe9        > I cannot seem tofind anything on the web for such.
2022-11-04 18:49:23 <olle        > MrMobius: was that for me? no.
2022-11-04 18:51:05 <olle        > You know of Collapse OS?
2022-11-04 19:43:22 <olle        > Hmmm, three different object system in gforth :P
2022-11-04 19:44:14 <thrig       > TIMTOWTDI
2022-11-04 19:48:02 <olle        > ?
2022-11-04 19:50:55 <olle        > There's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI or TIMTOWTDI, pronounced Tim Toady) is a Perl programming motto.
2022-11-04 19:50:58 <olle        > ah
2022-11-04 19:58:56 <olle        > Web page with many example snippets of Forth available?
2022-11-04 19:59:05 <olle        > https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/forth/
2022-11-04 20:01:46 <olle        > http://www.forth.org/tutorials.html
2022-11-04 20:11:33 <thrig       > rosetta code probably has forth examples
2022-11-04 20:22:41 <olle        > Yep!
2022-11-04 20:22:53 <olle        > Also found a book written 2005!!! Must be the latest one xD
2022-11-04 20:23:00 <olle        > https://www.mpeforth.com/arena/ProgramForth.pdf
2022-11-04 20:23:38 <olle        > 
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2022-11-04 22:32:38 <joe9        > https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/w7K2CFqSCe8/m/nv_h2XtD9iEJ
2022-11-04 22:32:45 <joe9        > https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/J1gvnQ7YYro/m/9DWwdlLdcSAJ
2022-11-04 22:32:49 <joe9        > good ones.