Re: [Amforth] Multi Line Comments

2013-12-29 Thread Matthias Trute
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Craig, > I know I will probably get flamed for wanting multiline comments > but I think they are really handy when writing / debugging code. I had no need for such comments... > (* This is a comment *) <-- this single line comment works fine > >

Re: [Amforth] Release 5.2 published

2013-12-29 Thread Matthias Trute
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Enoch, > Do you know how one is admitted to the forth200x.org committee. If > you are interested I think the members of this group would be happy > to do the lobbying for you. Getting a member of this club is easy: Attend their meetings at least

[Amforth] Multi Line Comments

2013-12-29 Thread craig and heather
Thanks Enoch, I hadn't realized the shell supported multi line comments and since I only use the excellent shell, I can accomplish what I want without extra code. Great, -- Craig Lindley If you’re one in a million, there are now seven thousand people exactly like you. -

[Amforth] Multi Line Comments

2013-12-29 Thread craig and heather
Enoch, I just tried out multi line comments for the first time using the shell and it doesn't seem to work as I would expect. Here is a little bit of the code I am working on \ Define some named bit fields &5 &0 &4 bitfield: READ_BL_LEN &6 &0 &2 bitfield: C_SIZE_HIGH &7 &0 &8 bitfield: C_SIZE

Re: [Amforth] Multi Line Comments

2013-12-29 Thread Enoch
Hi Craig, Forth default comments are simple ( ) parentheses, brackets. These are the ones the shell respects: |C|1|\ This comment is respected by amforth |W|2| |C|3|( |C|4| |C|5|1 1 + . |C|6| |C|7|This comment is resepected by the shell |C|8| |C|9|) |W| 10|

[Amforth] Multi Line Comments

2013-12-29 Thread craig and heather
Enoch If that is the case then it is impossible to comment out code if you have embedded stack diagrams in it. That results in nested comments which are illegal. I guess I'm back to trying to add multi line comments with my own code. Craig Lindley If you’re one in a million, there are now seven

Re: [Amforth] Multi Line Comments

2013-12-29 Thread Enoch
craig and heather writes: > Enoch > > If that is the case then it is impossible to comment out code if you have > embedded stack diagrams in it. That results in nested comments which are > illegal. > > I guess I'm back to trying to add multi line comments with my own code. Lodge the complaint ag

[Amforth] amforth/code/trunk@1488

2013-12-29 Thread Enoch
Hello Matthias, Your latest commit to "Speed up defers. And save some code space." breaks my _private word list _scope. Compliation hangs. I am sure you'll figure out why faster. TIA, Enoch. - wordlist constant _private get-order