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On 13/09/2024 8:38 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:
> dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> "I remain adamant that local variables  are not only useless, they
>>>> are harmful. If you are writing code that needs  them you are
>>>> writing, non-optimal code" - Chuck Moore 1999 ...
>>
>> Claims made in respect of locals in forth - ease of use, better
>> performance through less 'stack juggling', better
>> readability/maintainability - were all made in the 1980's.  What has
>> changed?  Forthers today are more willing to believe, to accept the
>> word of authority, lack the interest to discover the truth for
>> themselves?  
> 
> Is avoiding locals because of the Chuck Moore quote not an example of
> accepting the word of authority?

Or I've yet to hear a convincing argument from the locals authorities :)

You have the source to my app.  Perhaps you can nominate where locals
could have been used to better effect.