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Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS|

Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Date 2014-02-11 20:26 -0800
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Subject Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS|
From darktjm@gmail.com

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On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 9:05:57 PM UTC-6, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> Systems are not restricted to 8 locals, but applications that need more 
> 
> have a dependency. That is, you may develop your application on a Forth 
> 
> that supports 20 locals, and you use all 20. This will work just fine on 
> 
> all Forth systems that support at least 20 locals (assuming your other 
> 
> requirements are met. Systems are required to document whether they 
> 
> support locals and if so, how many, and you are required to document how 
> 
> many you require if it's more than 8.

Right.  I'm only complaining about the "eight", really.  Forth 200x requires 16 locals, so the wording needs to change.  However, I'm also also like to make what you said clear, by changing the wording to make the fact that more are permitted.  As written, it sounds like allowing more than that number makes the word non-compliant.  In fact, the wording for {: contains no hard limits, but instead defers to the introductory material, which says pretty much what you said.  In other words, that "up to eight" is written like an unnecessary additional restriction.

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2012 rc2: LOCALS| darktjm@gmail.com - 2014-02-11 18:49 -0800
  Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS| "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-11 17:05 -1000
    Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS| darktjm@gmail.com - 2014-02-11 20:26 -0800
      Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS| "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-11 19:18 -1000
  Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS| anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-12 09:45 +0000
    Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS| darktjm@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 18:13 -0800
      Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS| Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-13 00:39 -0800
        Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS| Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-12 22:56 -1000
      Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS| anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-13 09:06 +0000
      Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS| stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-02-13 12:44 +0000
        2012 rc2: REPLACES/SUBSTITUTES darktjm@gmail.com - 2014-02-13 14:19 -0800

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