Re: sh-boom again

John Passaniti wrote:

Your recent code (not in Forth, but in LSE/whatever) pointed to the use of variables instead of using the stack. You stated that using the stack was an example of "cleverness." So would you say that (for example) code in the Forth Scientific Library is equally guilty of this "cleverness" and instead of using anonymous stack entries for calculations should move immediately to using variables?
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> Regardless, I'm really struggling to understand your point.

When the data flow through the code is naturally LIFO, use the stack. When it isn't, don't. Why is that difficult to understand?

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