2024-05-20 13:50:35 <vms14       > guys tell me dirty things about your forth
2024-05-20 13:50:54 <vms14       > like what is the feature you added that you like the most, etc
2024-05-20 13:51:36 <vms14       > mine is not a forth, but i like a word named 'buffer' that expects code and redirects stdout to have everything printed on a string, then pushes that string on the stack
2024-05-20 13:52:10 <vms14       > : hello.world ." Hello, world" cr ;
2024-05-20 13:52:18 <vms14       > 'hello.word buffer
2024-05-20 13:52:37 <vms14       > it will return a string with hello world\n
2024-05-20 13:53:09 <vms14       > it's mainly for generating code, or html or similar stuff
2024-05-20 13:53:26 <vms14       > this way the words just need to print stuff, and some wrapper will capture that output
2024-05-20 14:00:08 <veltas      > zelgomer: For me # means 'current number of things", and not size
2024-05-20 14:00:27 <veltas      > e.g. #TIB is number of chars currently in TIB
2024-05-20 14:00:50 <veltas      > I just don't have a symbol to mean 'size' or 'capacity', I'll choose names that fit
2024-05-20 14:01:00 <veltas      > Often 'MAX' appears in that name like MAX-TIB
2024-05-20 14:01:35 <veltas      > Depends on context
2024-05-20 14:03:13 <vms14       > i use 'len' for that
2024-05-20 14:20:20 <KipIngram   > For the size of some entity, in whatever units made sense for it, I'd be apt to use len as well.  I guess that's my Python exposure influencing me.
2024-05-20 14:53:00 <zelgomer    > cell-len?