Re: Operator overloading?

minforth@gmx.net (minforth) writes:

Thanks. But it seems this is only the old 16-bit DOS version.

Looking at the Vierte Dimension 2/2024, which arrived this week, I
find another article about the new, 32-bit strongForth, and also the
link

https://www.stephan-becher.de/strongforth3/

I have been looking for the ANS-compatible layer file
mentioned in the discussion.
>
IMHO and without belittling strongforth's merits, I think
that it went too far and proposed another Forth dialect.

Whether it's too far or not is up to the recipient to decide.  But
yes, if you have a single and a double on the stack, say "1 2.", then
in standard Forth you have to use ROT to switch them around, while in
StrongForth you use SWAP.

I am thinking on a much smaller scale i.e. unification of
operators for xVALUEs and xLOCALs. ANS Forth already has
overloaded TO but stops there.

+TO is a common extension.

- anton
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