[retroforth] Re: factoring request
- From: Charles Childers <crc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: retroforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:30:54 -0400
>>What's so bad about hyphens? We already have a couple of words (zt-make
>>and zt-free) with hyphens.
>>
>>
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>are those words? :-) scnr
>
>
Yes.
>hyphens per se are not bad, but they often indicate opportuninty for
>refactoring. A good name for the historical word CREATE would be
>PARSE-CREATE since it does two things.
>
>The words for handling zero-terminated strings in SwiftForth start
>with Z only, like ZPLACE or ZAPPEND ...
>
What does SwiftForth call the words to turn a counted string into a zero
terminated one, and to free up the memory used?
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