ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie) (01/06/90)
Date: 12-23-89 (03:21) Number: 344 To: R.BERKEY [ROBERT] Refer#: 339 From: ROEDY GREEN Read: NO Subj: CHAR Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE 'A' to get the letter A rather than the string is fine with me, because my main complaint with CHAR is it is too bulky and tends to obscure the meat following. The problem with 'A' might be in inventing additional words that behave similarly. There is no mechanism in Forth to insert your own code to analse literals. I built this into BBL, but I don't think I have seen it in the standard. Love Roedy NET/Mail : British Columbia Forth Board - Burnaby BC - (604)434-5886 ----- This message came from GEnie via willett through a semi-automated program. Report problems to: 'uunet!willett!dwp' or 'willett!dwp@gateway.sei.cmu.edu'