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...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Oct 4, 2005 9:02 am
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Forth standards meeting at EuroForth 2005 On 2005-10-20 and 2005-10-21 there will be a Forth standards meeting, right before EuroForth 2005 ...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Oct 4, 2005 10:07 am
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Here's my report on the meeting. You can find this report in HTML form on <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/ansforth/meetings/2005.html> I also append...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Nov 14, 2005 5:23 pm
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The HTML version of this RfD is <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/ansforth/required.html> CHANGE HISTORY 2001-08-14: Changed stack effect from ( i*x...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 2, 2006 3:20 pm
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... In MPE Forths, REQUIRES refers to the module mechanism. However, since REQUIRED and REQUIRE do not produce a name conflict, I can live with these names. As...
... So should I change, e.g., "perform INCLUDED" into "perform the function of INCLUDED"? Or do you have a bigger change in mind? ... Currently INCLUDED is...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 10, 2006 7:05 pm
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... No - that's enough. ... I would argue that since INCLUDE isn't specified (but should be) both REQUIRE and INCLUDE can be specified as desired. Setting base...
... My interpretation is that since the standard does not explicitly allow that INCLUDED changes, e.g., BASE, in a standard system INCLUDED must leave BASE...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 11, 2006 10:59 pm
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... No - I said INCLUDE - not INCLUDED. Again, this is why wording like " functionality of <name>" is important. INCLUDE and REQUIRE are *not* standard words,...
... Ok. In that case, I see two options: - We want to allow that behaviour of INCLUDE along with behaviour that does not change the BASE (since both variants...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 12, 2006 9:23 pm
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... Seems good enough, although a statement that it is legal just to select DECIMAL would be more direct. As a side note, the MPE standard source file template...
... IMO get-context get-current base @ only forth definitions decimal at the start and base ! set-current set-context at the end is better style (and actually...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 13, 2006 10:03 pm
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... Ugly, ugly, ugly! Yes, it works, but it's guru code. Most of our clients really don't want to know this sort of stuff and the crash caused when there's a...
The HTML version of this RfD is <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/ansforth/required.html> CHANGE HISTORY 2006-01-21 o Normative: Added memory allocation...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jan 21, 2006 5:59 pm
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This is 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...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Feb 12, 2006 6:55 pm
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... Agreed. ... Agreed. ... Agreed. ... Given the discussion about "syntactic sugar", is this not also an ambiguous condition for INCLUDED and therefore this...
... Not for INCLUDED alone, but yes, for a combination of INCLUDED and REQUIRED. Unfortunately it is too late to change the wording for this proposal, but I...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Feb 16, 2006 12:25 pm
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... VFX Forth (Win/Lin/DOS) ... Forth6 cross compilers ... Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, stephen@... MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time ...
The current standings on the CfV: "One-time file loading" are: [ ] conforms to ANS Forth. Gforth VFX Forth Forth6 cross compilers (Stephen Pelc) [ ] already...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Mar 19, 2006 6:52 pm
52
The HTML version of this RfD is <http://www.forth200x.org/ekeys.html> Problem How do I write a portable Forth program that reacts to key presses of cursor keys...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
May 21, 2006 10:03 am
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... [ ... ] ... I would like to see them all added to this proposal. ... I *do* use them. It would be very desirable to have the same words available in...
Robert Epprecht
epprecht@...
May 24, 2006 6:38 am
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The HTML version of this RfD is <http://www.forth200x.org/ekeys.html> Change History 2006-05-28 Added K-INSERT, K-DELETE, K-F* and K-*-MASK. Added Sections ...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
May 28, 2006 4:32 pm
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... I think of applications in three basic groups: embedded mobile/PDA desktop This proposal is firmly in the desktop arena. IMHO it introduces unspecified...
... Yes. It's certainly not useful for programs that run on computers without keyboards. ... No such linkages are intended. Why do you think that this...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jun 3, 2006 2:39 pm
57
The HTML version of this proposal is at <http://www.forth200x.org/fp-stack.html>. Problem Writing floating-point code such that it can run on a unified stack...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jun 4, 2006 6:33 pm
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... No. Writing code that can run on unified and separate stacks is. ... Yes, make separate stacks the standard. No, just mark the unified stack usage as...
... KEY is not just used for keyboards! On our systems, both desktop and embedded, KEY, EMIT and friends can be vectored on a task/thread/callback specific...
... Not really. The PC has a 8042 based keyboard, which is then translated to the X keyboard event (which is an abstraction for quite a number of different...
... I take your point, but both start from the Linux kernel and libc. There are other operating systems. The point at issue is really that the proposal seems...
... From VAX to zSeries: They all can work with X servers, by mapping key strokes to KeySyms. And the same works on Windows and Mac OS, which are again...
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