... 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
wmb@...
Nov 10, 2008 7:30 am
233
... 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
anton@...
Jan 21, 2009 5:56 pm
244
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
anton@...
Jan 24, 2009 5:38 pm
245
... 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
anton@...
Jan 30, 2009 5:50 pm
248
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...
RfD: BUFFER: 4 February 2009, Stephen Pelc Rationale ========= Problem ... Despite the wording in the ANS Forth specification, the majority of Forth systems,...
... Ok, I mentioned this in comp.lang.forth wrt FVALUE: this is (based on) the verbiage we produced for the revised text of VALUE, but the Execution part seems...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Mar 22, 2009 10:23 pm
253
I was quite busy in the last few months and did not update the website in a timely manner when a new RfD appeared. However, the web site is up-to-date now...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Mar 22, 2009 10:51 pm
254
... Last Version of the Xchar wordset: http://groups.google.de/group/comp.lang.forth/browse_thread/thread/13252b6b17a609c7/f4776eb103af7e25?hl=en&lnk=ol& -- ...
... * First draft * * First spell-checked draft ** Marcel Hendrix, August 25, 2006 * Revised to align with RfD for TO ** Marcel Hendrix, Saturday,...
anton@...
Mar 23, 2009 3:58 pm
256
At the non-voting standards meeting last week the participants expressed their intent to make a release of the standard based on the things that will be...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Mar 30, 2009 3:11 pm
257
RfD: Ambiguity in FATAN2 version 1.1 Problem The ANS definition is: 12.6.2.1489 FATAN2 f-a-tan-two FLOATING EXT ( F: r1 r2 -- r3 ) or ( r1 r2 -- r3 ) r3...
RfD: Unneeded restriction in FASINH Problem The ANS definition is: 12.6.2.1487 FASINH f-a-cinch FLOATING EXT ( F: r1 -- r2 ) or ( r1 -- r2 ) r2 is the...
A number of people have raised points about the revised code. I would like to withdraw the proposed code change, and replace it with the following. \ Create a...
Problem ======= When reviewing the 2VALUE and FVALUE proposals it was felt that the text was a little weak. This was no fault of the proposals, but rather the...
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