This is the third RfD on this topic. The second one was in July 2007. You find the updated text further down. The main point of contention was about the...
Anton Ertl
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Aug 5, 2008 5:19 pm
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... I have two issues outstanding: 1) F" is not a fully reusable tool, 2) Name explosion, e.g. why not FS" for file in a search path. The first issue is that...
... Yes, the scope of this proposal is limited. ... See "What if the user uses F" or INCLUDE-NAME-ABS outside a Forth ... No. ... If you want to create a file...
Anton Ertl
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Aug 7, 2008 9:59 am
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... You miss the point. These days, file names often come from dialog boxes, databases and so on. The application programmer is presented with a) a filename...
... Now I understand what you mean with consumer. You mean words like OPEN-FILE and INCLUDED that consume file names, right? At the start of this proposal I...
Anton Ertl
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Aug 7, 2008 8:43 pm
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... The dialog boxes I have experienced produce absolute file names, so no relative-directory-handling is necessary. I have never seen a database contain file...
Anton Ertl
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Aug 7, 2008 9:18 pm
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... Yes. In practice, the only two that matter are OPEN-FILE and CREATE-FILE. VFX expands text macros there. We have not had a single tech support query about...
RfD - Enhanced local variable syntax, v4 ==================================== Stephen Pelc - 11 August 2008 20080811 Removed references to local buffers as...
RfD - Local buffers, v4 ======================= Stephen Pelc - 14 September 2007 20080811 Brought into line with LocalsExt4.txt. 20070914 Split local buffers...
I have asked Elizabeth for permission to bring the ANS cross compiler proposal into Forth200x. She has granted that permission, but we need to keep Elizabeth...
... I have access to the forth200x web site. If you can provide URLs to the appropriate documents, I can either arrange for a link from the f2kx site, or...
... That's certainly true for my Forth system - the one that is included in FirmWork's Open Firmware. It saves the input source specification on the return...
Mitch Bradley
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Nov 10, 2008 7:30 am
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... The big downside to this proposal is that it is a point solution to a general problem. When it was proposed on c.l.f. I could not define my real...
... The only implementation I know of that doesn't use the return stack is Gforth's implementation. It uses a field in the input buffer structure for ...
At the last meeting, the committee requested a change before we take this to a CfV so here is the updated version. Also includes my new contact details. RfD:...
Following the Forth 200X meeting in September 2008 I was asked to update the RfD for 2VALUE, in particular to conform to the rewritten definition of TO. Draft...
Ed raised an interesting point in his comments. In that the reference implementation uses the PAD. The standard makes a point of stating that the PAD is for...
... This fine for hosted systems running in RAM. PARSE\" requires a writable destination area. In embedded systems, it is not unusual to store text such as web...
... That's very clear, to me at least. Neither a standard program nor a standard system may modify the input buffer while it is still valid. There is even an...
Anton Ertl
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Jan 21, 2009 5:56 pm
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The German Forth-Tagung is held from Friday 2009-03-27 to Sunday 2009-03-29 (see <http://www.forth-ev.de/article.php/20090114085747376> for more information)....
Anton Ertl
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Jan 24, 2009 5:38 pm
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... No. Not worth the expense and great distance to travel. ... Yes. Both. ... Stephen and I intend to submit RfDs for cross-compilers, BUFFER:, and the N>R...
... Under protest. It takes too much time/money to travel for one day. ... Yes, both. ... It needs a schedule and chairpersons who will stick to the schedule....
... Here they are: Leon Wagner and Stephen Pelc would participate in a two-day meeting. Only Stephen Pelc would participate in a one-day meeting and only under...
Anton Ertl
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Jan 30, 2009 5:50 pm
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Anton, ... Sorry for not meeting the deadline but I was waiting to know my schedule for the semester. As it is, I would participate in the review meeting but I...
RfD: N>R and NR> 4 February 2009, Stephen Pelc Rationale ========= Problem ... Several ANS words, e.g. GET-ORDER and SAVE-INPUT, return a variable number of...