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From: Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:48:20 +0000
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On 2012-11-20 17:30:59 +0000, Josh Grams said:

> Chris Hinsley wrote: <2012112017122399207-chrishinsley@gmailcom>
>> I am uncomfatable with aspects of the standard,
> 
> For instance?
> 
> --Josh

OK, lets take one issue !

The input system ! Terminal and file input. Yuck, really bad ! I hit 
this issue as soon as I tried to understand what INCLUDE did etc, I'm 
sure you all laughed at that !

I want a simple stack of input streams ! The root being the terminal. 
INCLUDE just stacks the next FD on the input source stack and that's 
all. WORD just reads from the current top of input stack stream. And 
real C style streams FFS ! Not some arse backwards set of IN> or 
whatever the god damb word is. C streams using a BUFP and BUFE concept, 
FD objects that wrap a stream of input, either via memory or disk file 
or BLOCKS (jesus, what is all that about !).

Chris