Re: Which standard?

From	"Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Which standard?
Date	2012-05-01 07:38 +0100
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Stephen Pelc wrote:
>
> Anton Ertl wrote:
>>
>> One approach would have been to mark NOT as reserved word name, so
>> that systems providing NOT would be non-standard.  That might have
>> cooled the usage down enough to allow re-standardization now, but OTOH
>> there would then be no common practice.
>
> I agree with the first sentence. As for the second sentence, lack
> of common practice (as opposed to common name) indicates lack of
> need.

I did argue for reserving NOT in the '94 document but was drowned out
by the chorus of "let's not go there again".

A similar problem exists for " (quote) which was also dropped from
Forth-94.

The same problem occurred when I suggested reserving the names of the
obsolete words that we dropped from Forth200x.

-- 
Peter Knaggs

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