Re: Parsing timestamps?

On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 9:44:35 +0000, Paul Rubin wrote:

zbigniew2011@gmail.com (LIT) writes:

"Pick and Roll are the generic operators which treat the data stack as
an array. If you find you need to use them, you are probably doing it
wrong. Look for ways to refactor your code to be simpler instead."

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What is the origin of that quote?

 https://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_stack_operators
(so probably Mitch Bradley must be the author)

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: 3DUP ( a b c -- a b c a b c )  3 PICK 3 PICK 3 PICK ;
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Seems clearer than some mess of ROT and return stack temporaries.

There is no rule without an exception.
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