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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Stack vs stackless operation
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:53:40 +1100
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On 27/02/2025 3:18 am, LIT wrote:
>>> These words, as I already wrote, were just examples to illustrate the
>>> approach, which isn't limited to operations commonly associated
>>> to do sorting kind of work.
>>>
>>> I created also ROR/ROL words, that have nothing to do with any
>>> sorting processes:
>>
>> I mean, that's the whole thing with Forth - you *can* define any words
>> you like, based on your needs, extending the basic set of operations
>> into a whole domain-specific language suited to the problem you're
>> trying to solve. But that's not in itself a strong argument for adding
>> XYZ to the "standard" dictionary.*
> 
> If you could, please, remind me when and where I was
> proposing to add these XYZs to standard dictionary?
> 
> Thanks in advance!

Then you have an existing application that demonstrates the benefit after
having examined and ruled out other ways of optimizing the code?