[retroforth] Re: RetroForth 8.0 later>

  • From: Charles Childers <charles.childers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: retroforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:21:58 -0500

> But this will run into a tail recursion problem. Every ")" before ";" is not 
> needed and with tail recursion turned on it will cause bad behaviour. At the 
> time I called the word "later>", I did not see it as "ending tag". There was 
> no good reason to use "later>" directly before ";". For ")" there are good 
> reasons (like readability) to be used before ";".

So far I've tested it on a 30-deep nesting without any problems. Of
course I'm also using these at run time, not compile time, which could
make a difference. Further tests will come in early February.

-- 
Charles Childers
http://www.retroforth.org

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