Re: Naming 'n' instances or repetitions

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'.
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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 ...