The proposal for rewording TO looks good to me. Typo: "definition" misspelled as "defintion" (missing "i"), several places. Mitch...
Mitch Bradley
wmb@...
Oct 1, 2006 11:48 am
151
I've posted a few short summaries of some of the proposals on http://ccgi.figuk.plus.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=5 The intention is that anyone interested can...
RfD -- (( * First Draft * Rationale ========= Problem ... Most Forth users find it useful to have a block comment -- a comment command that covers multiple...
... on ... It's ... two ... standard ... name. ... )) ... can't ... AND ... do ... include ... end ... of ... on. ... Win32Forth supports both (( comments ))...
... \ **************************************************************** \ Maybe I'm a bit exotic, but I have never used (or missed) a block \ comment in Forth....
... comment ... no ... It's always useful to have features like that in the editor. The latest W32Forth editors also allow block commenting/uncommenting of ...
Just to throw in my $0.02 here: I've always found a nesting block comment very useful -- the nesting is very easy to implement with a count on the stack. The...
RfD -- (( February 2, 2007 * Third Draft * Significant Differences from 2nd Version ============================ Name change from (( to (* Nesting, (* (* *)...
I'm reposting v3 of the structures proposal before making what I hope will be the last draft. The last standards meeting at EuroForth 2006 was broadly in ...
The following text is draft 4 of the Forth200x structures proposal. I hope it is the last draft except for minor wordsmithing. If there are no substantial...
The next Forth200x meeting is on September 13-14, just over three months away. If you want to initiate an RfD and want it to be ready for the next meeting,...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jun 6, 2007 1:24 pm
165
The next Forth200x meeting is on September 13-14, just over three months away. If you want to initiate an RfD and want it to be ready for the next meeting,...
Authors ======= Peter Knaggs Anton Ertl Change History ============== 2006-10-07 Spelling and Grammar Corrections. Added Comments. 2006-09-30 First Public...
This is actually a poll about how widely the proposal is implemented and how popular it is among the programmers. It is called a CfV (call-for-votes) because...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jun 8, 2007 9:39 am
168
... Who is responsible for issuing a CfV? Presumably not the originator as he didn't for the Structures CfV. What are the criteria for deciding whether to do...
Systems [ ] conforms to ANS Forth. Gforth bigForth Gerry Jackson's system [ ] already implements the proposal in full since release [ ]: [ ] implements the...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jun 25, 2007 1:59 pm
170
Anton Ertl wrote: <snipped> Proposal RfD: Structures - Version 4 6 February 2007, Stephen Pelc Ballot for systems If you maintain several systems, please...
Alex McDonald wrote: [Ballots] Thanks. ... That's a little long. I have included it, but I think it would be better to mention such things at the RfD stage,...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jun 26, 2007 9:04 am
172
This is actually a poll about how widely the proposal is implemented and how popular it is among the programmers. It is called a CfV (call-for-votes) because...
... The ballot system doesn't work well to describe how Gforth and bigFORTH do it, so I explain it in words: Gforth and bigFORTH have made IORs throwable since...
... The proposal does not say that you *must* use these numbers, it says that if you use these numbers, this is what the standard means by those specific...
... The proposal is now in the CfV stage and therefore frozen, so it cannot be revised in any significant way. Someone could do an alternative proposal that...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jul 11, 2007 2:19 pm
176
Stephen Pelc - 7 June 2007 20070607 Wordsmithing. Corrected reference implementation. 20060822 Added explanatory text. Corrected reference implementation. ...
Stephen Pelc, 21 August 2006 20060922 Enhanced current practice section. Fixed some typos. 20060821 First draft. Rationale ========= Problem ... Various words...
21 August 2006, Stephen Pelc 20060822 Updated solution section. 20060821 First draft. Rationale ========= Problem ... The word S" 6.1.2165 is the primary word...
... Yes. ... Yes. However, the list of THROW codes in the proposal only reserves numbers for use. There is nothing in it to stop you carrying on using the...
Since it's time to post RfDs, I want to throw in the updated proposal for the XCHAR wordset. I hope I have included all comments so far, and I also included a...
... Application code might want to deal with key strokes, and therefore use XKEY (and XEMIT). A localized application (like Tetris) with a Farsi keyboard would...
... There are some examples in Section 4 of <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ertl%26paysan05.ps.gz>. There are also examples there of doing the same...
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