...of the time in most systems. Oh, do they? Do you mean most systems return a fail flag when they could have worked (obeying the letter of the standard but not the spirit) or that they crash in some way? Until Jonah Thomas came up with the glorious idea that lead to EXECUTE-PARSING and EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE, I was also thinking along similar lines. However, the problem with such words is that they do not fit in the...

... a program design somewhat. Certainly. But the advantage is that it works. For comparison, look at words like SAVE-INPUT and RESTORE-INPUT, which may fail, and probably fail most of the time in most systems. Until Jonah Thomas came up with the glorious idea that lead to EXECUTE-PARSING and EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE, I was also thinking along similar lines. However, the problem with such words is that they do not fit in the ...

Jonah Thomas wrote: Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com> wrote: Brad Eckert wrote Occupation is fake justice at best. I think the first step to having peace in the middle eastern countries would be to stop screwing them over. Now I know why Japan is such a mess. Feudal Japan was a kinder gentler place. Well, at least a better place to make movies about. This is entirely off-topic, but.... I read that...

... can be used to read the file from the file position existing at the time FILE-SOURCE is called. CLOSE-SOURCE ( -- ) simply closes the current input source and restores the previous one. Until Jonah Thomas came up with the glorious idea that lead to EXECUTE-PARSING and EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE, I was also thinking along similar lines. However, the problem with such words is that they do not fit in the usual nesting ...

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:08:03 +1000, Jonah Thomas <jethomas5@gmail.com> wrote: Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com> wrote: Elizabeth D Rather wrote Presidents run the executive (administrative) part of government, of which military is but a part. And if military mistakes are "easy" to fix, how come we haven't fixed Iraq yet? By much easier to fix, I mean compared to something like the Income Tax. (You ...

Jonah Thomas <jethomas5@gmail.com> wrote: Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote: Is it legal to use FIND on the name of a local variable to return xt and then pass the xt to COMPILE, ? It doesn't seem to be forbiddedn so I'm guessing this is OK. No, it isn't OK. 13.3.3.2 Syntax restrictions e) Words that return execution tokens, such as ' (tick), ['], or FIND, shall not be used with local ...

Jonah Thomas wrote: The trouble with voting for politicians is that after one of them wins you have a politician in office. The first definition of politician in http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/politician is: "a person experienced in the art or science of government; especially: one actively engaged in conducting the business of a government" My wife was elected Supervisor for the township in which we live. So ...

Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com> wrote: Jonah Thomas wrote Of course he'd be likely to die in office leaving us with somebody who apparently has never made a serious government mistake and corrected it. That's pretty scary. Well, presidents don't run the government. They run the military. Military mistakes are much easier to fix. It is thus you console me? Young earnest democrat volunteering to help at...

Charlie Springer wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:05:02 -0700, Jonah Thomas wrote (in article <20080904150502.304121e5.jethomas5@gmail.com>): Of course he'd be likely to die in office leaving us with somebody who apparently has never made a serious government mistake and corrected it. That's pretty scary. Well, presidents don't run the government. They run the military. Military mistakes are much easier to fix. ...

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:05:02 -0700, Jonah Thomas wrote (in article <20080904150502.304121e5.jethomas5@gmail.com>): Of course he'd be likely to die in office leaving us with somebody who apparently has never made a serious government mistake and corrected it. That's pretty scary. Well, presidents don't run the government. They run the military. Military mistakes are much easier to fix. I had also thought about the mental health ...