The current standings on the CfV: Extension queries are: Systems [ ] conforms to ANS Forth. Gforth [ ] already implements the proposal in full since release [...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Apr 5, 2005 5:46 pm
... The following suggestions have been made: NextWord (conflict: exists with different meaning in Win32Forth) TOKEN NAME (existing practice: exists with this...
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Alex McDonald
alextangent
Apr 6, 2005 12:22 am
... [X] conforms to ANS Forth. Win32Forth [ ] already implements the proposal in full since release [ ]. [ ] implements the proposal in full in a development...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Apr 22, 2005 9:18 am
... In the meantime additional names have been proposed and some have received some support: NextWord (conflict: exists with different meaning in Win32Forth) ...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Apr 25, 2005 5:52 pm
PARSE-NAME CHANGE HISTORY 2005-04-22 This is a renamed version of the PARSE-WORD RfD. Apart from the naming issue the main difference to the first PARSE-WORD...
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Mike Hore
mike_hore
Apr 30, 2005 2:31 am
Hi all, I've been away for a month or so -- I'm happy with PARSE-NAME. In Mops we have PARSE-WORD but not with exactly the same semantics - if the initial...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
May 6, 2005 2:55 pm
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...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
May 11, 2005 3:01 pm
... VFX Forth for Windows/DOS/Linux ... Forth 6 cross compilers ... Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, stephen@... MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
May 11, 2005 4:20 pm
... Thank you. ... Is the Linux version available? I don't find it mentioned on your Web page. ... The "no plans" answer is meant for the system (not some...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
May 30, 2005 3:13 pm
The current standings on the CfV: PARSE-NAME are: Systems [ ] conforms to ANS Forth. MPE VFX Forth for Windows/DOS/Linux MPE Forth 6 cross compilers Gforth [ ]...
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cgm4fsl
Sep 25, 2005 12:14 am
(Also posted to comp.lang.forth) Problem The need for a standard word to find whether some Forth word has already been defined and is available. The...
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Mitch Bradley
wmb@...
Sep 25, 2005 12:26 am
[IFDEF] and [IFNDEF] are easier to use, as they include the function of the following [if]. In some sense, [DEFINED] is better because it is "more...
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Bernd Paysan
berndpaysan
Sep 25, 2005 11:00 am
... Gforth has [IFDEF] and [IFUNDEF], [DEFINED] and [UNDEFINED]. There's no use of [DEFINED] and [UNDEFINED] except the definition of [IFDEF] and [IFUNDEF],...
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Hans Bezemer
hansoft@...
Sep 25, 2005 11:55 am
... It is a nice tool when evaluating conditional compilation statements. That way, [UNDEFINED] boils down to [DEFINED] YADA [NOT] [IF] BTW, your example can...
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Bernd Paysan
berndpaysan
Sep 25, 2005 10:16 pm
Problem: ASCII is only appropriate for the English language. Most western languages however fit somewhat into the Forth frame, since a byte is sufficient to ...
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Bernd Paysan
berndpaysan
Sep 26, 2005 10:34 am
... Though, depending on the fixed code-page, the translation will be different (latin-1 different from latin-2). ... You can add a few other encodings. UCS16...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
Sep 27, 2005 3:30 pm
... The phrase or [if] occurs 41 times in our cross compiler source tree, and the phrase and [if] occurs 45 times. Nearly all of these are in conjunction with...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Oct 4, 2005 9:02 am
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...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Oct 4, 2005 10:07 am
Forth standards meeting at EuroForth 2005 On 2005-10-20 and 2005-10-21 there will be a Forth standards meeting, right before EuroForth 2005 ...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Nov 14, 2005 5:23 pm
Here's my report on the meeting. You can find this report in HTML form on <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/ansforth/meetings/2005.html> I also append...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 2, 2006 3:20 pm
The HTML version of this RfD is <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/ansforth/required.html> CHANGE HISTORY 2001-08-14: Changed stack effect from ( i*x...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
Jan 9, 2006 12:44 pm
... In MPE Forths, REQUIRES refers to the module mechanism. However, since REQUIRED and REQUIRE do not produce a name conflict, I can live with these names. As...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 10, 2006 7:05 pm
... So should I change, e.g., "perform INCLUDED" into "perform the function of INCLUDED"? Or do you have a bigger change in mind? ... Currently INCLUDED is...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
Jan 11, 2006 8:13 pm
... No - that's enough. ... I would argue that since INCLUDE isn't specified (but should be) both REQUIRE and INCLUDE can be specified as desired. Setting base...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 11, 2006 10:59 pm
... My interpretation is that since the standard does not explicitly allow that INCLUDED changes, e.g., BASE, in a standard system INCLUDED must leave BASE...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
Jan 12, 2006 9:38 am
... No - I said INCLUDE - not INCLUDED. Again, this is why wording like " functionality of <name>" is important. INCLUDE and REQUIRE are *not* standard words,...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 12, 2006 9:23 pm
... Ok. In that case, I see two options: - We want to allow that behaviour of INCLUDE along with behaviour that does not change the BASE (since both variants...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
Jan 13, 2006 10:23 am
... Seems good enough, although a statement that it is legal just to select DECIMAL would be more direct. As a side note, the MPE standard source file template...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 13, 2006 10:03 pm
... IMO get-context get-current base @ only forth definitions decimal at the start and base ! set-current set-context at the end is better style (and actually...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
Jan 17, 2006 12:22 pm
... Ugly, ugly, ugly! Yes, it works, but it's guru code. Most of our clients really don't want to know this sort of stuff and the crash caused when there's a...
