Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:42:31 -0500 From: Andrew Haley Subject: Re: ENVIRONMENT? Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth References: <2012Jul3.172921@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <1749b256-4b8d-4cf9-8439-b7b5aab4046d@5g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> <96caccda-722c-498c-b9f1-d84156d57dad@b1g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <38OdnQq44Ov3s2nSnZ2dnUVZ8o2dnZ2d@supernews.com> <26b7e74a-c528-4269-994b-e6330f00732e@x21g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: tin/1.9.2-20070201 ("Dalaruan") (UNIX) (Linux/3.4.3-1.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: <4sOdnbZXydLKy2nSnZ2dnUVZ8gOdnZ2d@supernews.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:42:31 -0500 Lines: 20 X-Trace: sv3-k8M0R1PiOFTAbPEjiU/1wqO0p+kXCwhODpCf8ePIh1prXYja6gHH+H1OH6zykimJDIkZDI0tvLDDeaY!+nbYqs4c8kDSmRIJDtWJOVW+HJ4Afy7y4Ul6fCqL+lxitV5HQBkHW4Lxo6Dd6yO9db1Uujz92PqG!BOiA41UXxg== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2239 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:13531 Mark Wills wrote: >> >> All I can say is that you are at variance with everyone else who has >> implemented standard Forth. >> >> > The mere existence of the word is not enough to satisfy the >> > standard. It has to behave according to the spec (obviously!), >> >> Which the definition I supplied does. > > Well, that's where we disagree. > > I see nothing in the text that indicates that the strings listed in > 3.2.6 are optional! I read it as "These are the currently defined > strings. Implement them". If you like, the TC could come up with a clarification. We meet in September. Andrew.