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@...
Mar 16, 2005 3:37 pm
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PROBLEM How do we parse a word from the input stream? PARSE does not skip leading delimiters, and you cannot specify that you want to parse for white space. ...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Mar 25, 2005 4:46 pm
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... In the SP-Forth/4 (spf.sourceforge.net) there is 'NextWord' word compatible with this specification. Regards, -- ac@......
... And MPE's VFX Forth and all MPE v6+ embedded targets. ... MPE.0000 \ *G An alternative to *\fo{WORD} below. The returned string is a \ ** c-addr/u pair...
... And I guess that there is quite a bit of code that uses this. ... Ok, I'll check that when I get in my office (where I have the F83 listings). ... Ok, so I...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Mar 26, 2005 8:20 am
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Here is the relevant source from F83. ... Mitch...
Mitch Bradley
wmb@...
Mar 26, 2005 8:39 am
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... One suggestion was NextWord, another possibility could be TOKEN. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" ...
... Win32Forth has NEXTWORD similar to (and uses) WORD ; it refills over line boundaries. Used mainly for macro type parsing, and in the meta compiler. ... ...
The current standings on the CfV: Extension queries are: Systems [ ] conforms to ANS Forth. Gforth [ ] already implements the proposal in full since release [...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Apr 5, 2005 5:46 pm
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... The following suggestions have been made: NextWord (conflict: exists with different meaning in Win32Forth) TOKEN NAME (existing practice: exists with this...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Apr 5, 2005 5:46 pm
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... [X] conforms to ANS Forth. Win32Forth [ ] already implements the proposal in full since release [ ]. [ ] implements the proposal in full in a development...
... In the meantime additional names have been proposed and some have received some support: NextWord (conflict: exists with different meaning in Win32Forth) ...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Apr 22, 2005 9:18 am
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PARSE-NAME CHANGE HISTORY 2005-04-22 This is a renamed version of the PARSE-WORD RfD. Apart from the naming issue the main difference to the first PARSE-WORD...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Apr 25, 2005 5:52 pm
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Hi all, I've been away for a month or so -- I'm happy with PARSE-NAME. In Mops we have PARSE-WORD but not with exactly the same semantics - if the initial...
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@...
May 6, 2005 2:55 pm
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... VFX Forth for Windows/DOS/Linux ... Forth 6 cross compilers ... Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, stephen@... MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More...
... Thank you. ... Is the Linux version available? I don't find it mentioned on your Web page. ... The "no plans" answer is meant for the system (not some...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
May 11, 2005 4:20 pm
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The current standings on the CfV: PARSE-NAME are: Systems [ ] conforms to ANS Forth. MPE VFX Forth for Windows/DOS/Linux MPE Forth 6 cross compilers Gforth [ ]...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
May 30, 2005 3:13 pm
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(Also posted to comp.lang.forth) Problem The need for a standard word to find whether some Forth word has already been defined and is available. The...
[IFDEF] and [IFNDEF] are easier to use, as they include the function of the following [if]. In some sense, [DEFINED] is better because it is "more...
Mitch Bradley
wmb@...
Sep 25, 2005 12:26 am
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... Gforth has [IFDEF] and [IFUNDEF], [DEFINED] and [UNDEFINED]. There's no use of [DEFINED] and [UNDEFINED] except the definition of [IFDEF] and [IFUNDEF],...
... It is a nice tool when evaluating conditional compilation statements. That way, [UNDEFINED] boils down to [DEFINED] YADA [NOT] [IF] BTW, your example can...
Hans Bezemer
hansoft@...
Sep 25, 2005 11:55 am
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Problem: ASCII is only appropriate for the English language. Most western languages however fit somewhat into the Forth frame, since a byte is sufficient to ...
... Though, depending on the fixed code-page, the translation will be different (latin-1 different from latin-2). ... You can add a few other encodings. UCS16...
... The phrase or [if] occurs 41 times in our cross compiler source tree, and the phrase and [if] occurs 45 times. Nearly all of these are in conjunction with...
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
37
... 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...