Re: RfD - Enhanced local variable syntax (long)

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:48:21 +0200, Andreas Kochenburger
<akk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Then everything after -- is comment. IMHO one should not mix
>unnecessarily compiler instructions and comments within the same
>syntax. You could put any misleading things after --.

It is very common practice to put a stack comment on the definition
line of a word.

: foo ( a b c | e f -- d }
\ *G FOO does something useful

Modern systems, e.g. DocGen and Brad Eckert's DexH extension,
can use this line to produce do***entation. We do not
want such systems to have to provide two lines with the
same information

: foo \ a b c -- d
\ *G FOO does something useful
  ( a b c | e f -- d }

Having two definitions of the same thing is a recipe for error.
Enabling the tail after '--' saves keystrokes. Note that '--'
is not mandatory.

Stephen

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