Re: unexpected behavior of ACCEPT

The docs say that=20

KEY? is a low level function that returns TRUE if a character is waiting.=
 (it does not remove this character from the input stream as shown by Q1)

ACCEPT -- in command window, text is displayed after the receipt of each=
 character.

-- so ACCEPT is ignoring the first waiting character, but not the following=
 -- nothing in the DOCS requires getting this first character, but many=
 versions of ACCEPT in SWIFTX do get this character as they are based on=
 KEY! Just something to be aware about I guess! If you must receive all=
 characters for communications then ACCEPT is not trustworthy from one FORTH=
 to another.

Ken B

At 05:06 PM 5/2/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>ACCEPT doesn't use KEY.
>
>>
>> Kenneth Butterfield (02.05. 15:43):
>>
>> > : q1 1000 ms key? key emit ;
>> > : q2 10000 ms key? if pad 10 accept pad swap dump then ;
>> >
>> > q1 (immediatly type 1) returns 1
>> > q2 (immediately type 1234) returns 234
>> > q2 (wait 20 seconds type 1234) returns 1234
>> >
>> > Where does the leading character go?
>>
>> I'd guess that that once key? has seen the 1 keypress, it's not
>> available to accept any more, as this event has already been handled and
>> forgotten.
>>
>> s.
>>
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