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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Experimental Ideas
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Nov18153712@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:37:12 GMT
- References: <4148.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us's message of 14 Nov 92 13:25:43 GMT
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- In article <4148.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
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- At EuroForth '92 Christophe Lavarenne (`FreeForth') proposed to
- get rid of the Forth interpreter altogether and use a "compile
- buffer" (my interpretation). The idea, which has also been
- proposed by Mitch Bradley and John Hayes (among others), is to
- compile each line typed by the user into a nameless colon
- definition, execute that code and forget it again.
-
- Doesn't this, in essence, describe how STOIC works?
- It always _seemed_ a better model to me, but I have to admit I've
- never actually tried it. I keep meaning to hunt around some of the
- CP/M archives for it but never seem to get round to it :-<
- Of course if somebody has a portable UNIX implementation, that would
- be a different matter altogether ...
-
- bevan
-