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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Fetch string from comment Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:40:04 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2025Mar5.094004@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <687ff0eebad416a2f284ba186461c6d9c54d91cf@i2pn2.org> Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:49:58 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="eee41958499e67ed41ee7c51ef2e8e9f"; logging-data="2467530"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18rDRw6TnuA0MLSzXojBa0v" Cancel-Lock: sha1:k67xg5iSlLyBVKCRJOCjfxY8mGo= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 Bytes: 2115 mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes: >I am not a fan of S\" TYPE as it tends to move the parsing and >interpretation problems to parts of the code / library that may >not be prepared for it, or where it would be quite an overhead >to anticipate every present and future possibility. Can you elaborate on that, especially about the overhead? >For instance, >having a backspace in a string has no obvious meaning in most >of the system code Nobody forces you you to use \b if it's inappropriate. >and an application can simply redefine BS >to have it do what is necessary. One would have to define BS first; otherwise you cannot redefine it. What is BS supposed to do, and what is redefining BS supposed to achieve? - anton -- M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html New standard: https://forth-standard.org/ EuroForth 2023 proceedings: http://www.euroforth.org/ef23/papers/ EuroForth 2024 proceedings: http://www.euroforth.org/ef24/papers/