Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:54:27 +6
From: "Gene LeFave" <gene_at_tekdata.com>
Subject: Re: [sftalk] Snippet 1

>I agree that +ORDER and -ORDER will be useful. Might I suggest
>renaming them to +CONTEXT and -CONTEXT. The word ORDER has many
>other connotations that one might use in an application. While
>CONTEXT is fairly specific and not as likely to be used by a
>SwiftForth programmer as it is already reserved in all versions of
>SwiftForth and PolyForth and probably other Forth Inc software.

Gene,

Those were candidates for the names, but CONTEXT is not an ANS Forth
concept, whereas ORDER is. For instance, SET-ORDER and GET-ORDER.

In the absence of either overwhelming negative comment or a
dictate from higher up, the names will stick.

Rick

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Received on Fri Mar 19 1999 - 14:54:27 PST