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
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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...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jul 19, 2007 1:50 pm
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Posted by: "Anton Ertl" anton@... ... Looking at this from the implementer's point of view, and with the view that KEY, EMIT and friends...
... Could be useful. ... Not really. XKEY can just return a UCS-4 number, so it doesn't have to know about UTF-8. In practice, terminals can give you multiple...
... The completeness flag should be part of READ-KEY's stack effect, not a separate word. A word called XKEY? might still be useful, if KEY? does not do the...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jul 20, 2007 12:43 pm
187
This is the second RfD on this topic. The first one was in September 2006. You find the updated text further down. The main point of contention was about the...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jul 22, 2007 12:36 pm
188
I know this is not going to be of interest to most people. If we want to be considered for a formal development, we have to go though the process. Hence this...
... I do not like any of these! If you want to use a macro, use a name that refects what you mean, which seems to be relative to the directory of the next...
... Where is the common practice in this proposal. Which Forth systems and for how long? Which other languages? Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, stephen@... ...
... Thanks for the answer. I take it as an answer to the "preference" question. ... Nobody suggested dumping text macro substitution. ... I guess that in...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jul 25, 2007 1:51 pm
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... Ok. ... Yes. Note that macros are definable by the user at both compile time and at run time. ... I realise at long last why I object to this proposal - it...
Problem It is often useful to write numbers in other than the current BASE. Changing BASE to do this is often inconvenient and has lead to hard-to-find errors....
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Aug 3, 2007 6:28 pm
195
This seems like a reasonable proposal. I just want to point out something that people might not have noticed. The "parsing words" formulation (H# D# etc) can...
Mitch Bradley
wmb@...
Aug 3, 2007 7:18 pm
196
RfD: Escaped Strings S\" 19 July 2007, Stephen Pelc 20070719 Modified ambiguous condition Added ambiguous conditions to definition of S\" Added test cases ...
ANS Forth and large characters Revised: 25 July 2007 Authors ======= Stephen Pelc, MicroProcessor Engineering, stephen@... Peter Knaggs, Bournemouth...
I am still waiting for more feedback about '<char>' before going to a CfV. In the meantime I just wanted to get the changes out that I have accumulated (they...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Aug 11, 2007 5:41 pm
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... I'm happy with the number prefix stuff. VFX Forth is base first, but given that base plus sign definitions are *very* rare, we're not going to be upset if...
... The proposal proposes base-sign-digits, e.g., #-99. I guess is that's what you mean with base-first. ... Yes, the proposal proposes 'a'. The feedback I...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Aug 13, 2007 10:21 am
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... I'm for it on the whole, but it's low on my priority list. Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, stephen@... MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less...
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