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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Naming 'n' instances or repetitions
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 14:14:47 +1000
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On 22/05/2025 1:34 pm, dxf wrote:
> I've noticed two ways of naming things 'done n times'.
> 
> In SwiftForth there is:
> 
>   (.0) (H.0)
> 
> which equate to executing '#' 'n' times.
> 
> It's not clear to me why '0' was used though '0' appears in forth naming
> conventions meaning 'initialization'.
> ...

While there was no comment/description for the above, there was one for H.0 :

  "H.0 Display u in hex in a right-justified field of n zeros."

So the '0' had nothing to do with count or instances but rather the fill character.
In that case I'll leave (H.N) NHOLD as they were.  OTOH one could have (H.#) #HOLD ...