New edition of "Programming Forth" by Pelc (July 2016)

[dwight]

To take things in a different direction, in Forth, I often put 3 or 4
Forth words on a single line.
I don't do it to compact the code but to make the code more readable.
Often strings of Forth words are almost sentences.
How do others feel about this?
I've gotten away from the one words, followed by a usually useless comment.
Dwight

[GARTHWILSON]

dwight wrote:

To take things in a different direction, in Forth, I often put 3 or 4
Forth words on a single line.
I don't do it to compact the code but to make the code more readable.

Visual factoring is very valuable.

Quote:

Often strings of Forth words are almost sentences.

I've had some that truly are sentences, like

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   TURN ON #4 LED

where TURN is a flag variable, ON sets it to true, #4 is a constant's name and it puts the LED number on the stack, and LED does the job. English does not operate in RPN like Korean does though, so in most cases the code won't sound very English-like, which is fine with me. It can still be Forth sentences.

[scotws]

GARTHWILSON wrote:

Does it just overwrite your comments?

No, it doesn't touch them - I put that in by hand so people here don't have to figure out what lda.di does. Seemed like the polite thing to do until you've all switched to Typist's Notation as well .

[Bregalad]

Looks great, is there a way to get this book in Switzerland ?