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| From | Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Make double numbers notation more strict |
| Date | 2026-08-26 09:15 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <116m3qs$dtoq$3@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <nnd$75f73955$2d227776@b20bb7cf7316e876> <6a8ceb79$1@news.ausics.net> |
On 25-08-2026 03:10, dxf wrote: > On 24/08/2026 9:36 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote: >> What does the Forth community think of the following: >> >> Now double numbers have to end with a '.' (c-notation). >> Double precision numbers loose significance in the 64 bit era. >> Time to de-emphasize this. >> ... > > Moore said that about 32-bit (and double operators) back in '89 and > still folks are finding uses. Getting rid of doubles/input just to > support floating-point which isn't even forth's niche (RPN and all that) > ... seems so wrong. > Still it was one of the causes to abandon ALL mixed and double words from 4tH. Until I needed them in order to implement high level floating point words -- and I consequently had to eat my words ;-) Hans Bezemer
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Make double numbers notation more strict albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-24 13:36 +0200
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-24 14:44 +0000
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com> - 2026-08-24 16:57 +0000
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-25 11:10 +1000
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-08-24 18:25 -0700
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-25 14:44 +1000
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-24 20:51 -0500
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-25 14:17 +1000
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-25 05:51 -0500
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-25 21:20 +1000
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-25 10:41 -0500
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-26 13:51 +1000
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-26 11:54 +0200
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-26 12:00 +0200
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-08-26 14:39 +0000
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-26 15:28 +0000
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict peter <peter.noreply@tin.it> - 2026-08-26 18:42 +0200
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-26 17:04 +0000
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-27 12:43 +0200
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-08-26 09:12 +0200
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-08-26 09:15 +0200
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-08-26 09:09 +0200
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-26 12:22 +0200
Re: Make double numbers notation more strict Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-08-26 19:40 +0200
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