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| author | HorseMD <alightedness@gmail.com> | 2014-11-13 00:13:54 +0000 | 
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| committer | HorseMD <alightedness@gmail.com> | 2014-11-13 00:13:54 +0000 | 
| commit | e5fbd94af0455cfcac15e398c41a0686b69d38ec (patch) | |
| tree | b220b3fd733a0b301fb8c308cf8b7d650c303148 | |
| parent | ae2728d58009abfd7d50c2fbc346e46a58e0c2fc (diff) | |
Refactor section Stack Manipulation.
| -rw-r--r-- | forth.html.markdown | 16 | 
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions
| diff --git a/forth.html.markdown b/forth.html.markdown index 7b805057..91591ac9 100644 --- a/forth.html.markdown +++ b/forth.html.markdown @@ -56,17 +56,10 @@ of what is written here should work elsewhere.  \ Naturally, as we do so much work with the stack, we'll want some useful methods. -drop \ drop (remove) the item at the top of the stack (note the difference between this and `.`) -dup  \ duplicate the item on top the stack -rot  \ rotate the top three items (third -> first, first -> second, second -> third) -swap \ swaps the top item with the second item - -\ Examples: - -dup *            \ square the top item -2 5 dup * swap / \ half the top item squared -6 4 5 rot * -    \ sometimes we just want to reorganize -4 0 drop 2 /     \ add 4 and 0, remove 0 and divide the top by 2  +3 dup -          \ duplicate the top item (1st now equals 2nd): 3 - 3 +2 5 swap /       \ swap the top with the second element:        5 / 2 +6 4 5 rot .s     \ rotate the top 3 elements:                   4 5 6 ok +4 0 drop 2 /     \ remove the top item (dont print to screen):  4 / 2  \ ------------------------------ More Advanced Stack Manipulation ------------------------------ @@ -173,7 +166,6 @@ mynumbers 3 cells erase  \ them to 0 we just use `erase`).  \ or we can just skip all the above and initialize with specific values: -  create mynumbers 64 , 9001 , 1337 , \ the last `,` is important!  \ ...which is equivalent to: | 
