Re: [colorforth] if then else - but why is there no ?else? in colorForth?

["John R. Strohm" <strohm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hm.

Maybe what you want is "IF(", ")ELSE(", and ")ENDIF".

"(" and ")" are already in use, for stack comments, and I'd rather not overload 
")".

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Kemp" <jason.kemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [colorforth] if then else - but why is there no ?else? in 
colorForth?


> Hi John,
>
> John R. Strohm said the following on 02/11/2008 14:05:
> > A simpler way would be to reprogram "then" to read "endif"
> That had me for a while. The way ‘if’ and ‘then’ are used in Forth seems so 
> wrong when you’re used to other languages. A newbie expects the condition 
> between ‘if’ and ‘then’ and the conditional action after the ‘then’. The stack 
> messes up this idea. The Forth ‘if’ is actually the ‘if’ and ‘then’ of other 
> languages combined.
>
> Another way could be using brackets: ‘if(’ and ‘)’. That might be easier to 
> read.
>
> OK. I’m sick of if now.
>
> Jason
>
>
>
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