On Friday 12 January 2007 00:31, Slava Pestov wrote:

> On 11-Jan-07, at 6:45 PM, Eduardo Cavazos wrote:

> > : #foo ( -- ... )           ! Call the value of foo. E.g. "foo" get call

> I don't like this.

It's a little far out. It's a feature waiting for a problem. :-)

> > In the old vars system, VAR: foo in addition to making getter and
> > setter
> > words, also setup up foo to be a symbol. In the system I changed it
> > so "foo"
> > is used as the variable.

> I also don't like this.

Yeah, Chris made me think about this.

> > The main reason I was defining a symbol foo was to
> > for let, but I might remove let anyway.

> You can make let compile, though.

Well actually, it wasn't because of the let compile error that I was going to 
remove it. It's because I think it's clearer to write out what let was doing. 
Let was another feature waiting for a problem. I didn't really use it that 
much.

> > I might make a parsing word for something like let:
> >
> > (( a b c )) will expand into >c >b >a
> >
> > : foo (( a b c ))
> >
> >     a> b> * a> c> * + b> - ;

> I don't like this either :-)

That's another far out thing. Just messing around. The stuff that "you don't 
like" I definately acknowledge as being experimental.

Ed

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