Forth like interpreter

[John W. Baxter]

In article <slrn8ddftm.jju.wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net>, 
wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net wrote:

> Is this a big deal?  What problems are caused by a period at the end of an
> URL?  Or is this all as hypothetical as my old efforts to avoid it?

I simply leave the period off the sentence if it is inconvenient to use 
it.  Similarly for sentences starting with things like the name of 
something which is lower case:

int is a ... in Python.

Saying what you mean is more important than keeping your grammar 
happy...besides, she's out in the kitchen making cookies.

  --John (who learned a smattering of LISP back in the late 50s at MIT, 
where/when one could detect the LISP users by the stacks of cards 
punched with 80 )s in their shirt pockets:  the batch interpreter gave 
*no* output given a shortage of )s, but usually provided useful 
information give extras, so one slapped a few ) cards on the end of 
one's submitted decks <overnight turnaround is not as handy as what we 
do now>)

-- 
John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com