... Where is the common practice in this proposal. Which Forth systems and for how long? Which other languages? Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, stephen@... ...
... Thanks for the answer. I take it as an answer to the "preference" question. ... Nobody suggested dumping text macro substitution. ... I guess that in...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Jul 25, 2007 1:51 pm
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... Ok. ... Yes. Note that macros are definable by the user at both compile time and at run time. ... I realise at long last why I object to this proposal - it...
Problem It is often useful to write numbers in other than the current BASE. Changing BASE to do this is often inconvenient and has lead to hard-to-find errors....
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Aug 3, 2007 6:28 pm
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This seems like a reasonable proposal. I just want to point out something that people might not have noticed. The "parsing words" formulation (H# D# etc) can...
Mitch Bradley
wmb@...
Aug 3, 2007 7:18 pm
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RfD: Escaped Strings S\" 19 July 2007, Stephen Pelc 20070719 Modified ambiguous condition Added ambiguous conditions to definition of S\" Added test cases ...
ANS Forth and large characters Revised: 25 July 2007 Authors ======= Stephen Pelc, MicroProcessor Engineering, stephen@... Peter Knaggs, Bournemouth...
I am still waiting for more feedback about '<char>' before going to a CfV. In the meantime I just wanted to get the changes out that I have accumulated (they...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Aug 11, 2007 5:41 pm
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... I'm happy with the number prefix stuff. VFX Forth is base first, but given that base plus sign definitions are *very* rare, we're not going to be upset if...
... The proposal proposes base-sign-digits, e.g., #-99. I guess is that's what you mean with base-first. ... Yes, the proposal proposes 'a'. The feedback I...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Aug 13, 2007 10:21 am
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... I'm for it on the whole, but it's low on my priority list. Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, stephen@... MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less...
1) I don't much care for '<char>' although it would not be a hardship if it were to be adopted. These are not really numbers, so this concept may muddy the...
... You won't. The proposal leaves the & prefix undefined, so the systems can continue to define it as they always have. ... That's related to the "multi-line...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Aug 14, 2007 4:35 pm
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Ok, several more votes have come in about the '<char>' part of the proposal, and I have decided to keep it. So here's the CfV: This is actually a poll about...
Authors ======= Peter Knaggs Anton Ertl Change History ============== 2007-08-17 Revised normative text to allow be better integration into the document. ...
Klaus Schleisiek has asked me to remind you that today is the registration deadline for EuroForth 2007. The conference is preceeded by the Forth200x meeting. ...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Aug 24, 2007 7:10 am
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Systems [ ] conforms to ANS Forth. iForth (Marcel Hendrix) Gforth Win32Forth 6.xx, STC version 0.02 [ ] already implements the proposal in full since release [...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Aug 24, 2007 4:07 pm
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I have just uploaded the first revision of the 07 release of the Forth 200x basis document to the group web site. ...
... Forth ... Is it too late to propose other COMUS words for standardization? I'm thinking in terms of avoiding boilerplate definitions when distributing...
... While it is far too late for this meeting, we will be holding another one next year. So please go ahead and write it up as a RfD and post it. See...
The changes agreed at the Dagstuhl Meeting (13-14 September, 2007) have now been integrated into the basis document. This is now available for downloaded...
30 October 2007, Stephen Pelc/Peter Knaggs 20071030 Clarification of case sensitivity: Escape character is case sensitive, Hex digits are not. 20070913 Added...
At the last meeting we decided to do a non-voting Forth200x revision meeting at the Forth-Tagung (the German Forth meeting). The purpose of this meeting is to...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Feb 27, 2008 8:37 pm
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From what I can gather, from the University of Ulm web site, Ulm is on the A7 or A8 for those who wish to drive. For those of us who would prefer to fly, the...
... Stuttgart airport is one of the hubs of the low-cost airline Germanwings (www.germanwings.com); I have flown with them once, and that was ok. - anton...
Anton Ertl
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Feb 28, 2008 2:02 pm
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Stephen Pelc has informed me that he cannot attend the meeting for personal reasons. Since I have not heard from others that they plan to attend (except Peter...
Anton Ertl
anton@...
Mar 30, 2008 7:01 pm
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The next Forth200x meeting is in a little over 13 weeks. The RfD process takes quite a bit of time, and we have to submit the proposals for CfV 6 weeks before...
