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Hi,
While entering a program last night, I typed =0 instead of 0=, and the
interpreter accepted it; it took me quite a while to work out why my program
wasn't working properly. =0 does not seem to be a word (ie ' =0 results in the
"not found" error) so why does it get accepted, and what is it doing ? (I end
up with 60 on the stack after executing this word, although I didn't
investigate what else it was doing).
Cheers,
Richard
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 | | RE: What does =0 do ?
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| Richard, A little known fact is that if you "punctuate" a number with any of the following characters ,./-: you will get a double on the stack in the old FIG Forth. so 123-4567 will put the double value 1234567 on the stack. So why doesn't 0= get (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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