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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
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| Date | 2012-11-19 07:20 -0800 |
| References | <k8c3av$28g$1@speranza.aioe.org> <k8ctc6$nh9$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
| Message-ID | <6d30e8aa-e0fa-483f-87be-14f2fc2e8faa@eo2g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> (permalink) |
| Subject | Re: "comus" words |
| From | Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> |
On Nov 19, 9:15 am, "Ed" <inva...@nospam.com> wrote: > Rod Pemberton wrote: > > ... > > Also, is there any valid reason that an ANS Forth word like S" be > > implemented in terms of of words like PLACE and STRING, instead > > of ANS only words (as I did)? > > You forgot WORD. > > WORD is CORE and has traditionally been used to implement S" > type words. This results in compromise in portable programs such > as using WORD and S" concurrently; not permitting entry of null > strings etc. Then the implementation is broken, not the standard. > > Standards are not about what you can do - rather what you shall > allow others to do :) A good standard says nothing about implementation, but it is my experience that poor implementors blame standards to justify their failure to understand or inability to implement as specified. They rarely, if ever, assist in making standards less ambiguous or better specified, since coining aphorisms is a cheaper and less intellectually challenging task.
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"comus" words "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-11-18 20:55 -0500
Re: "comus" words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-18 16:28 -1000
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-19 20:14 +1100
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-19 07:20 -0800
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-20 16:30 +1100
Re: "comus" words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-20 10:22 +0000
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-22 01:59 +1100
Re: "comus" words Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-11-21 09:34 -0600
Re: "comus" words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-21 15:34 +0000
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-23 13:56 +1100
Re: "comus" words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-22 19:21 -1000
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-24 12:14 +1100
Re: "comus" words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-23 17:21 -1000
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-25 18:37 +1100
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-25 02:38 -0800
Re: "comus" words Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-11-25 05:11 -0600
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-25 03:33 -0800
Re: "comus" words Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-11-25 05:45 -0600
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-25 10:47 -0800
Re: "comus" words Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-11-25 16:05 -0600
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-26 04:06 -0800
Re: "comus" words albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2012-11-26 15:12 +0000
Re: "comus" words "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-11-26 04:56 -0500
Re: "comus" words Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-11-26 05:16 -0600
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-26 03:51 -0800
Re: "comus" words "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-11-27 07:29 -0500
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-27 11:05 -0800
Re: "comus" words "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-11-28 07:09 -0500
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-28 10:13 -0800
Re: "comus" words "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-11-29 06:09 -0500
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-29 03:22 -0800
Re: "comus" words Peter Knaggs <pjk@bcs.org.uk> - 2012-11-29 21:32 +0000
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-27 12:44 +1100
Re: "comus" words Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2012-11-27 17:59 +0100
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-29 12:53 +1100
Re: "comus" words Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2012-11-29 10:59 +0100
Re: "comus" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-11-29 02:22 -0800
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-29 02:58 -0800
Re: "comus" words Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-11-29 05:53 -0600
Re: "comus" words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-29 09:38 -1000
Re: "comus" words Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2012-11-29 13:10 +0000
Re: "comus" words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-29 13:52 +0000
Re: "comus" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-11-29 06:09 -0800
Re: "comus" words Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2012-11-29 15:43 +0000
Re: "comus" words Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2012-11-29 21:01 +0100
Re: "comus" words Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-11-29 23:17 +0100
Re: "comus" words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-29 17:01 -1000
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-30 08:30 +1100
Re: "comus" words Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2012-11-29 23:06 +0100
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-30 16:23 +1100
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-29 03:14 -0800
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-30 08:31 +1100
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-29 14:41 -0800
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-30 16:19 +1100
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-30 02:31 -0800
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-12-04 03:53 +1100
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-12-03 10:45 -0800
Re: "comus" words "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-12-06 18:31 +1100
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-12-06 01:37 -0800
Re: "comus" words albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2012-12-06 13:31 +0000
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-12-06 07:07 -0800
Re: "comus" words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-29 17:04 -1000
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-30 02:29 -0800
Re: "comus" words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 05:33 -0800
Re: "comus" words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-19 14:45 +0000
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-19 07:43 -0800
Re: "comus" words Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-11-19 07:45 -0800
Re: "comus" words oh2aun@gmail.com - 2012-11-22 21:10 -0800
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