Re: RfD -- FVALUE vsn 2.0

hansoft@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 22, 1:20?am, Jonah Thomas <jethom...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't like overloading TO . TO already has to look at the name it
affects and decide whether it's a value or a local. Now you want it to
also decide whether it's a floating value.

I don't like overloading too. It is strange to see that the undoing
of STATE-smart words (while STATE smart words made *some* sense; it
made the language easier to comprehend) was joined with overloading
words (which is another way to make words smart).

But TO isn't really overloaded: that's just a convenient fiction of
the way the language is standardized. All TO has to do is set a flag,
and then execute or compile the action of the name. So, this is AFAIK
allowed:

variable flag
: to 1 flag ! ; immediate
: value
create , immediate
does>
state @ if
postpone literal
flag @ if postpone ! else postpone @ then
else
flag @ if ! else @ then then
0 flag ! ;

I don't like the "state @ if" but the definition of VALUE rather
requires it. I'd rather there were no state-smart words at all, but
that battle was lost in 1994.

Mind you, I agree totally that FVALUE adds nothing useful to the
language: we already have perfectly good VARIABLEs already. However,
quite a few people seem to use it, and apparently that's the only
requirement for standardization.

Andrew.
.

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