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
anton@...
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
anton@...
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...
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
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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
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... 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
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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
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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...
20090331 Original Text Problem ======= The definition of a Definition name appears to be ambiguous. It is clear from discussion elsewhere that some people have...
20090331 Original Text Problem ======= The document currently refers to a character. According to the definition (3.1.2), a character may vary in size. This...
This is a vast improvement over the original and also clarifies the mixing of EKEY/EKEY? and KEY/KEY? pairs (something that has bothered many of us for a long...
Text substitution proposal Revised: 2 April 2009 Author: Stephen Pelc, MicroProcessor Engineering, stephen@... Input from: Peter Knaggs, Leon Wagner,...
... RfD: Floating point truncation Author: Krishna Myneni Version 1 -- 15 April 2009 Version 0 -- 10 April 2009 Problem ======= In practice, floating point...
anton@...
Apr 18, 2009 2:49 pm
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... RfD: Floating point truncation Author: Krishna Myneni Version 2 -- 24 April 2009 Version 1 -- 15 April 2009 Version 0 -- 10 April 2009 Problem ======= In...
anton@...
Apr 25, 2009 1:06 pm
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... RfD: Floating point truncation Author: Krishna Myneni Version 2.2 -- 28 April 2009 Version 2.1 -- 25 April 2009 Version 2 -- 24 April 2009 Version 1...
anton@...
Apr 29, 2009 12:47 pm
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... RfD: FNEGATE specification for signed zero Author: Krishna Myneni Version 0 -- 30 April 2009 Problem ======= The ANS Forth standard does not currently...
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