bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (01/28/87)
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Most of the replies to my question about read tables in FORTH have been
quite peculiar. I thought I asked if anyone had implemented them. I was
hoping to get some feed back on there usefulness and/or value as an
extension mechanism in FORTH. All but one reply fell into one or more of
three catagories.
1) One group of people commented that "if you add that to FORTH, it won't be
FORTH any more", the more extreme members of this group ordered me not to
add such a feature to FORTH.
To these people I would like to say that I don't really care if it would be
FORTH or not. And I certainly will not force you to use read tables.
2) Another group gave me detailed instructions on who to implement
read tables in FORTH. All of these were different and all depended
on what looked like implementation specific hooks.
Thank you.
3) The smallest group suggested that (some dialect of LISP) has read tables.
And that if I wanted to learn about them I should go play with LISP.
Yes indeed, I have "played around" with LISP for many years and have used
read tables in LISP, I've even implemented them. That's where I got the idea.
I've also "played around" with FORTH for a while.
Please, no more replies that don't address the question.
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