Re: Setting a pixel on the screen

Jason Kemp <[email protected]> Wed, 28 May 2008 22:42:01 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.forth.colorforth
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Thanks Ray,

That makes sense:  that it is just for "ease of use".  I could see how 
it was working but couldn't work out the reason--I just assumed I was 
missing something.

Jason

Ray St. Marie said the following on 28/05/2008 14:15:
> or word and double word. sorry.
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Ray St. Marie <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Ya, gosh, how many programs do I use this! Several! It's funny cuz
>> i've never not done it. It's Byte addressing, Please notice that you
>> are just setting things up with the 2 leftshifts so that the
>> definitions for ! and @ which include the definition   a,  ( defined
>> as 2* 2* ) which will return you back to word addressing. I suppose
>> this is for Chuck and for ease of use.
>>
>> Your guess is better then mine. :-)
>>     
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