Re: BETWEEN

William James <w_a_x_man@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes Re: BETWEEN
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>> Playing with the algorithm for WITHIN (A.6.2.2440) one gets:
>>
>> : BETWEEN  ( n1|u1 n2|u2 n3|u3 -- flag )   OVER - -ROT - U< 0= ;

> Stuff like this leads one to believe that Forth code is
> unreadable, cryptic, unsharable, and unmaintainable.
> It's worse than some assembly language I've seen.
> Forth needs to become a higher-level language.

Maybe, but in the case under investigation the offered 
functionality might be trickier than a quick glance 
reveals. Maybe you can rewrite BETWEEN in Pascal to find 
out just how tricky.

-marcel