lbForth Throw out DO-LOOP

Throw out DO-LOOP

Open larsbrinkhoff opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

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Remove (LOOP) from nucleus. Replace uses of DO-LOOP with FOR-NEXT in the kernel. Provide DO-LOOP in a compatability layer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Forth/comments/6b9lsz/alternatives_to_loop/

May 17 '17 05:05 larsbrinkhoff

@lowfatcomputing brought up an intresting idea: Use HERE as the index inside the loop.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Forth/comments/6loglg/loops_that_can_be_factored_use_the_dictionary/

Jul 07 '17 13:07 larsbrinkhoff