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Subject: Re: Parsing timestamps?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:43:24 -0000 (UTC)
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It was thus said that the Great LIT <zbigniew2011@gmail.com> once stated:
>> The more common complaint is that you use some feature they dislike
>> (typically locals) when you would otherwise DUP ROT instead.
> 
> But aren't 'locals' actually PICK/ROLL in disguise?

  In my implementation [1], it's a PICK off the return stack (technically,
from a set point in the return stack) as locals aren't allowed to remain on
the data stack per the ANS standard.

  -spc

[1]	<https://github.com/spc476/ANS-Forth>, specifically, forth.asm
	starting at line 7793.