... You can do that with EXECUTE-PARSING, which can be implemented in Forth-94 (ANS Forth) (an implementation is available in ...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Jun 2, 2009 9:02 pm
When I wrote my cross-compiler, I carefully segregated the "unlawful carnal knowledge" part (written in assembly) into a separate file. This file was actually...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jun 8, 2009 6:22 pm
Author: Gerry Jackson 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 ...
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Mitch Bradley
wmb@...
Jun 8, 2009 6:28 pm
With regard to 2VALUE, the FirmWorks Open Firmware implementation [ X] conforms to ANS Forth. [X ] already implements the proposal in full since release [ long...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jun 8, 2009 6:35 pm
Author: Gerry Jackson 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 ...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jun 10, 2009 12:18 pm
Author: Marcel Hendrix 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 ...
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Bernd Paysan
berndpaysan
Jun 10, 2009 2:25 pm
... -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Jun 19, 2009 6:07 am
I don't like VALUE, so I don't want a 2VALUE or fVALUE either. Way back in the 1980s somebody invented the TO word for modifying CONSTANT words. This was...
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Doug Hoffman
t0004dh
Jun 19, 2009 11:37 am
... Is it? From Forth 200x Draft 07.2r: A.1.3.1 Word sets From the beginning, the X3J14 Technical Committee faced not only conflicting ideas as to what...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Jun 21, 2009 5:32 am
Consider this line from C: X= 1-X; What does X mean? On the left-side of the = it means the address of the variable, where the result will be stored. On the...
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Mitch Bradley
wmb@...
Jun 21, 2009 7:59 pm
My personal experience, during over 25 of professional FORTH programming, is that VALUE is easier to use and less error-prone than VARIABLE. As a result, my...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jun 21, 2009 9:02 pm
... That's an interesting comment. Ritchie compared C with BLISS and some othere languages in that area in a paper (IIRC his HOPL-II paper on the history of...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Jun 21, 2009 10:55 pm
Your use of the term "practical utility aspects" seems quite remarkable. How exactly do you go about passing addresses of variables around on the stack if you...
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Elizabeth D Rather
erather
Jun 22, 2009 1:44 am
... First off, there are reasonably priced cross compilers available for the most popular microcontrollers from FORTH, Inc. and MPE (as well as more powerful...
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Nicolau Werneck
nwerneck
Jun 22, 2009 2:22 am
Is seems the community faces a bit of a dilemma between a simple, typeless Forth, and a more complicated "OO Forth" with modern and advanced capabilities but...
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Mitch Bradley
wmb@...
Jun 22, 2009 3:33 am
... First of all, I didn't say that I use only values. I said that my use of variables has dwindled almost to nil. Almost nil is not the same as never. In...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
Jun 22, 2009 11:42 am
Hugh Aguilar said stuff about VALUE WARNING: grumpy person's response: don't take it personally. This is Forth200x in 2009, not 1985. Three things you should ...
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Bernd Paysan
berndpaysan
Jun 22, 2009 12:29 pm
... Or, if you really like to make small devices and small programs, use a Forth processor like Chuck's, where you have a lot less space, a lot less ...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
Jun 22, 2009 1:59 pm
Hugh Aguilar spoke about OOP and cross-compilers As far as I know, nobody is currently writing an OOP proposal. It's been suggested before, but there is no...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Jun 26, 2009 5:20 am
I'm not a customer looking for a commercial (closed-source) product to buy. I'm a cross-compiler writer. My goal in getting involved in Forth-200x is to be...
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Elizabeth D Rather
erather
Jun 26, 2009 5:33 am
... Have you studied the proposed cross-compiler standard that I recommended to you in a previous message? Is that helpful? ... That is not correct. SwiftX...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Jun 29, 2009 10:12 pm
Author ... Hugh Aguilar Note: This is my first proposal, so bear with me if the wording is clumsy. Problem ... This works on a system in which code space and...
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Leon Wagner
leon_wagner
Jun 29, 2009 10:18 pm
Two problems: 1) You skipped a step. This needs to go out as an RfD first. You're skipping the discussion and going straight to a vote. There's a nice page...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Jun 29, 2009 10:35 pm
Author ... Hugh Aguilar Note: This is changed to be an RfD rather than a CfV. Problem ... This works on a system in which code space and data space are...
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Elizabeth D Rather
erather
Jun 30, 2009 7:54 am
... I also recommend that you post this on comp.lang.forth, which is where the most thorough discussions are taking place. Cheers, Elizabeth -- ...
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Bernd Paysan
berndpaysan
Jun 30, 2009 8:25 am
... No, that's not the solution. CREATE DOES> is standard, used by many programs and systems, and can't be changed. The solution is to add another word, e.g. ...
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jethomas3182
Jun 30, 2009 8:46 am
... I like your idea. You would make it easier to build optimising Forth compilers, and also make the language make more sense. I believe the problem for...
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stephen@...
sfprem
Jun 30, 2009 12:38 pm
Leon said ... It's worse than that - it's a code breaker! Every ANS system then becomes incompatible with Forth200x at the kernel level. So my vote is NO, NO,...
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Mitch Bradley
wmb@...
Jun 30, 2009 1:22 pm
... The first appearance of BUFFER: that I know of was in my Open Boot implementation for Sun SPARCstations. I needed a convenient way to allocate...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Jun 30, 2009 11:25 pm
Your LABEL and BUFFER words aren't a solution because they break the existing code that uses CREATE to define a buffer of memory. A typical example would be. ...
