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Subject: Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:22:40 +1000
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On 27/04/2025 8:28 pm, Hans Bezemer wrote:
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> Just a shame the very basics are missing. The only thing holding Forth back is the refusal to abstract strings. Wanna make it a counted string with a cell count? Do it. Wanna keep on doing counted strings? Do it. Wanna do ASCIIZ strings? No problem.

But aren't string primitives a la ANS-Forth the key to flexibility?  I've used
the concatenation primitive  +STRING ( a u a2 u2 -- a2 u+u2 )  countless times.

: ZPLACE ( c-addr u c-addr2 -- )  zcount +string + 0 swap c! ;

: ZAPPEND ( c-addr u c-addr2 -- )  zcount + zplace ;