NER034@PRIME-A.TEES-POLY.AC.UK (01/31/91)
The CASE statement (control structure) is one of the things that people trained in other languages comment on. They can not see how a language could work without it. Now, we all know how we could get by without it, however it shore does make things easier to do. A CASE structure coded for a given system will be more efficient that any structure imposed on top of the basic system. Many different Forths have a CASE structure, or something simular. I proposed this so as to standardise all the different versions so as to make it portable. Is this not the idea of standardising anything. If not then why are we doing it at all!! Peter Knaggs, ______________________________________________________________________________ | School of Computing and Mathematics, | Tel: +44 642 342673 | | Teesside Polytechnic, Middlesbrough | Fax: +44 642 342000 | | Cleveland, England. TS1 3BA | Janet: NER034 @ UK.AC.TP.PA | |---------------------------------------+------------------------------------| | It is not enough to do the right thing; one must also do it the right way. | |____________________________________________________________________________|