Re: Avoid treating the stack as an array [Re: "Back & Forth" is back!]

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 ...

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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.