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Re: String Constants

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: String Constants
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Date 2011-04-25 00:50 -0700
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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> If you change the standard in the way you suggested ("I'd simply make
> it clear that using HERE before it was allotted was nonstandard"),
> there would be no way for programmers to test whether their program
> violates this restriction.  So this suggested change would make
> standard Forth more of a language for language lawyers than for
> programmers than it is now.  Not a good direction to take.

I don't think of the SML standard as a language lawyer thing, but it's
precise enough that they've been able to formally verify a lot of it,
iirc.

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Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-18 20:52 -0700
  Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-19 03:44 -0500
    Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-21 21:34 -0700
      Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-22 03:20 -0500
        Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-22 07:37 -0700
          Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-22 11:12 -0500
            Re: String Constants anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-22 17:36 +0000
              Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-22 13:05 -0500
                Re: String Constants anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-22 18:17 +0000
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-23 03:22 -0500
                Re: String Constants anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-23 11:35 +0000
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-23 11:37 -0500
                Re: String Constants anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-23 12:07 +0000
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-23 11:40 -0500
                Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-22 12:22 -0700
            Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-22 12:13 -0700
              Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-23 03:30 -0500
                Re: String Constants anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-23 11:44 +0000
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-23 11:47 -0500
                Re: String Constants anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-26 09:23 +0000
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-26 06:49 -0500
                Re: String Constants Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-25 00:50 -0700
                Re: String Constants anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-26 10:08 +0000
                Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-23 10:14 -0700
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-24 03:15 -0500
                Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-24 13:26 -0700
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-24 17:03 -0500
                Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-24 19:05 -0700
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-25 03:08 -0500
                Re: String Constants kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk - 2011-04-25 07:07 -0500
                Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-25 08:00 -0700
                Re: String Constants Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2011-04-25 08:56 -1000
                Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-25 07:45 -0700
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-26 03:42 -0500
                Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-26 11:20 -0700
                Re: String Constants Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-04-26 11:02 -0700
                Re: String Constants Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-04-26 21:59 +0200
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-27 03:26 -0500
                Re: String Constants Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-04-27 09:12 -0700
                Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-27 11:28 -0500
                Re: String Constants Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-04-27 10:47 -0700
                Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-27 10:20 -0700
            Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-22 12:37 -0700

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