At the Vienna meeting it was decided that the "Obsolete"; word marked in section 1.4.2 namely #TIB, CONVERT, EXPECT, FORGET, QUERY, SPAN and TIB should be...
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Peter Knaggs
pknaggs
Aug 23, 2009 4:22 pm
At the Vienna meeting it was agreed that the Test Suite should be updated to the one currently on the web site, which includes the T{ }T notation, and the...
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Peter Knaggs
pknaggs
Aug 23, 2009 4:28 pm
At the Vienna meeting it was agreed that the Reference Implementations would be presented in an annex of there own rather than being included in the rational....
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Bernd Paysan
berndpaysan
Aug 23, 2009 7:36 pm
RfD: Xchar wordset 23 August 2009, Bernd Paysan Change history: 20090823 A few more edits to get fourth version 20090717 Edits made to bring proposal in shape ...
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Kai Henningsen
kai_henningsen
Aug 24, 2009 9:38 pm
... [...] ... [...] ... Actually, I believe you got the history slightly wrong. The way I understand it, UTF-16 was *always* variable-length, the older ...
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Bernd Paysan
berndpaysan
Aug 24, 2009 10:13 pm
... Thanks for pointing that out - this is just too confusing ;-). I edited my version of the document to get those words correctly. Working copy here: ...
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Peter Knaggs
pknaggs
Aug 25, 2009 3:45 pm
I have just uploaded the current version of the document to be discussed at the meeting next week. It can be downloaded from the usual place: ...
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David N. Williams
dnwills...
Aug 30, 2009 3:54 pm
Below is a copy of the cover message and most recent draft of the IEEE-FP Floating-Point proposal posted to comp.lang.forth, August, 28, 2009. Because some...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
Aug 31, 2009 12:33 pm
RfD - Enhanced local variable syntax, v5a ==================================== Stephen Pelc - 30 August 2009 20090830 Tidied. 20090325 Updated with some...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Sep 6, 2009 6:56 pm
Shall I put together a CfV for :NAME and we vote on it? I think that everything pro and con has already been said on the subject....
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Leon Wagner
leon_wagner
Sep 6, 2009 8:23 pm
I do not see an RfD identified as such on the "RfDs without CfVs" list: http://www.forth200x.org/ (<--scroll down a bit) Did it get lost? --Leon From:...
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Peter Knaggs
pknaggs
Sep 7, 2009 4:22 pm
... No proposal to modify :NONAME has appeared on this list. There are a surprisingly large number of people who read this mail list but not comp.lang.forth,...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Sep 8, 2009 2:04 pm
... I tend to put RfDs only on the list after they have been published in both the mailing list and in comp.lang.forth. In the present case I have not seen it...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Sep 8, 2009 2:53 pm
... You should post it to comp.lang.forth and see if any more arguments turn up. If that changes your RfD, do another iteration. Once your proposal has...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Sep 9, 2009 12:54 am
Okay, I'll post an RfD for :NAME on comp.lang.forth in the next couple of days. Note --- this was originally called HEADER by I later changed to :NAME for...
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Peter Knaggs
pknaggs
Sep 11, 2009 7:10 pm
c-add/len ========= 2009-09-09 Rendered into RfD form, added Forth200x words 1999-06-22 Original Text by John Rible Problem ======= A large number of words...
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Peter Knaggs
pknaggs
Sep 11, 2009 7:13 pm
Legacy Words ============ 2009-09-09 Removed legacy word set in favour of section D.7 1998-11-30 Original text by Len Zettel Problem ======= Section 1.4.2...
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Elizabeth D Rather
erather
Sep 11, 2009 7:17 pm
This actually was adopted (in principle) in the 1999 standards meeting at NASA. It's a good solution. Cheers, Elizabeth ... -- ...
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Peter Knaggs
pknaggs
Sep 15, 2009 11:06 pm
ANS Forth Internationalisation ============================== 2009-09-16 Remove SUBSTITUTE, now subject to a separate proposal. 2009-09-02 Converted into...
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Stephen Pelc
sfprem
Sep 16, 2009 5:23 pm
The proposal below varies from the version discussed at EuroForth 2009 in that an ambiguous condition has been removed. This was achieved by specifying that an...
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David Kuehling
dvdkhlng
Sep 17, 2009 5:47 pm
... [..] ... I don't understand what this means. Maybe I'm just ignorant, but in the RFD as it is written I do not see a way to distribute localization...
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David Kuehling
dvdkhlng
Sep 17, 2009 6:08 pm
... I see two problems with this approach: (a) it is not memory-efficient, as there is no way to specify that a substitution is not needed any more. The...
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Peter Knaggs
pknaggs
Sep 17, 2009 6:41 pm
... If a SET-LANGUAGE, SET-ENCODING or SET-COUNTRY has been executed. ... That is the intention, however, some people (Bernd in particularly) have asked for a...
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David Kuehling
dvdkhlng
Sep 17, 2009 8:12 pm
... Sorry, I still don't get it. ... [..] But without something like LOCAL!, there is no source-code portability between Forth systems for software supporting...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Sep 19, 2009 1:10 pm
Problem Wordset queries are the query strings that are defined with verbiage like "true if ... word set present", e.g., CORE-EXT. With the arrival of a new...
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Leon Wagner
leon_wagner
Sep 20, 2009 3:03 am
I like your proposed option 1. I don't use the environment queries, nor do I know anyone who does. Obsolescence for a little- or never-used feature is fine...
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Dennis Ruffer
DaRuffer
Sep 20, 2009 3:22 am
As someone who has used environmental queries I can say something about why they are not found very often. Especially in the case of wordsets, there has been...
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Leon Wagner
leon_wagner
Sep 20, 2009 3:27 am
I agree that it's more interesting to know if something specific is defined and I use [DEFINED] (or maybe [UNDEFINED]) for that. The problem with something...
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Elizabeth D Rather
erather
Sep 20, 2009 3:31 am
... Yes, CORE-EXT is a particularly bad example, since that's specifically intended as a "pick from" list. Some of the others (e.g. FLOATING) I can see...
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Anton Ertl
anton@...
Sep 21, 2009 6:24 pm
... Actually the code that I looked at contains a number of environmental queries (50 lines including some test and commented-out lines), just not wordset...
