2024-03-30 00:04:17 <zelgomer    > i took a walk once. there's nothing worth seeing out there.
2024-03-30 01:07:09 <zelgomer    > lf94: does the a: part add any value? why not just bits1 bits2?
2024-03-30 01:08:19 <lf94        > less to type
2024-03-30 01:08:29 <lf94        > in code you ref with a, b
2024-03-30 01:12:25 <zelgomer    > aren't they on the stack?
2024-03-30 01:14:19 <lf94        > i mean in your comments :)
2024-03-30 01:14:56 <lf94        > you'd probably never refer to the output type
2024-03-30 01:14:58 <lf94        > er
2024-03-30 01:15:00 <lf94        > var
2024-03-30 01:15:26 <lf94        > say you have some complex stack, but you want to show the reader at one point what you're about to operate on
2024-03-30 01:15:41 <lf94        > you can do `op1 op2 op3 ( e ) op4`
2024-03-30 01:19:03 <zelgomer    > i see
2024-03-30 01:19:23 <zelgomer    > i don't tend to write stack comments inline like that
2024-03-30 01:27:36 <lf94        > same, but when I have to, it's useful
2024-03-30 01:27:55 <lf94        > also, figured out the non-determinist results: not accessing a var properly of course.
2024-03-30 01:28:09 <lf94        > easy to get lost between 32-bit value addressing and regular addressing
2024-03-30 01:31:27 <thrig       > yes, I screwed up the RNG code when I mixed up cell- and char- addressing
2024-03-30 01:41:02 <lf94        > now the result is just wrong
2024-03-30 01:41:06 <lf94        > but at least it's deterministic lol.
2024-03-30 01:42:37 <thrig       > baby steps...
2024-03-30 01:52:54 <zelgomer    > what is char-? isn't that by definition just q-?
2024-03-30 01:52:57 <zelgomer    > 1-
2024-03-30 01:58:54 <Al2O3       > zelgomer are you talking standard or some derivative of forth?
2024-03-30 02:35:17 <zelgomer    > whatever they're talking about above me
2024-03-30 02:35:49 <zelgomer    > in what scenario is char- not 1-?
2024-03-30 02:43:11 <lf94        > char- ?
2024-03-30 02:43:19 <lf94        > oh
2024-03-30 03:12:43 <lf94        > What's the best way to get a copy of https://forth-standard.org/ locally?
2024-03-30 03:12:50 <lf94        > I'll be traveling for 2 weeks and it'd be nice
2024-03-30 03:13:42 <lf94        > oh nice :) https://forth-standard.org/
2024-03-30 03:13:44 <lf94        > whoops
2024-03-30 03:13:47 <lf94        > http://www.forth200x.org/documents/forth-2012.pdf
2024-03-30 03:14:18 <thrig       > https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/forth-documents
2024-03-30 03:14:56 <lf94        > :)
2024-03-30 03:14:58 <lf94        > thank you
2024-03-30 03:15:00 <lf94        > cloned
2024-03-30 03:16:26 <thrig       > or https://thrig.me/tmp/ans.tar.gz for a wacky cli tool