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Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS|

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: 2012 rc2: LOCALS|
Date 2014-02-13 09:06 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2014Feb13.100627@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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darktjm@gmail.com writes:
>On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:45:20 AM UTC-6, Anton Ertl wrote:
>> On the meta level, it was a mistake (in Forth-94) to put the limit in
>>=20
>> two places.  We did not repeat this mistake in the definition of {:.
>
>I had a longer response, but it really just comes down to this:  rather tha=
>n propagating that mistake, why not use the new standard to correct it?

Nobody wrote a proposal on it.

>I'm glad I decided against bringing up a more controversial objecti=
>on, like the fact that I believe SUBSTITUTE is dangerous and worthless with=
>out additional (and therefore non-portable) support.

If you believe that, why not bring it up?  The worst that can happen
is that you will be flamed.  Alternatively, we may find that
SUBSTITUTE is indeed deficient, or we may show you how to use it
safely and worthy in it's current form.

- anton
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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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