On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Kevin Rock wrote:
You are correct Vic. I should have defined Love? But then if you look in
the OED love takes a whole bunch of pages!
A loop of 10,000 honks may be a bit excessive however ;)
Kevin.
That was a delay loop! Honk only emits one beep :). You gotta love
a language in which a statement like:
>> The definition of ? is
>> : ? @ . ;
makes complete sense :). Actually, all of you RPN fanatics would love
FORTH, as it is essentially RPN based. Add some labels and control
structures, and whalla! You have a programming language!
2 3 6 * + .
Does just what you expect: 2, 3, and 6 get pushed on the stack, *
multiples 3 and 6 and replaces them with 18, and + adds 2 and 18 and
replaces them with 20. The period (.) writes the result to the terminal
and removes it from the stack. If you do something often, you can add a
new operation to the system with a colon definition:
: CUBE DUP DUP * * ;
and now you can write:
3 CUBE .
and it will pring 27! Every modern RPN calculator should come with a
built in FORTH :).
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