Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rod Pemberton Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Make Forth Small Again! Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:57:55 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 30 Message-ID: <20170323005755.712ecd78@_> References: <87pohbhmxc.fsf@nightsong.com> <380124c4-7591-4c55-a262-3d92b5bd4333@googlegroups.com> <2017Mar21.174630@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: ZTD62cW/Uw8bymX5ok+0NA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:56159 On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:02:09 -0700 (PDT) hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 10:17:36 AM UTC-7, Anton Ertl wrote: > > Andrew Haley writes: > > >Some people think that because a word is in CORE it has to be in > > >the set of words which is always loaded into the system, and it > > >must be present in the predefined dictionary when Forth starts. > > >But this is not true: there is no reason why some words can't be > > >loaded from source as required. It is true that the system won't > > >be standard until they are loaded, but this doesn't matter to > > >anyone. > > > > It certainly matters to me that I have to do some arcane > > incantations to load the FP words before I can use them on some of > > the systems I test on. > > This is a chronic annoyance --- both SwiftForth and VFX fail to load > the floating-point package automatically --- I'm aghast! Why is there no check for that? It's clearly the problem of the system implementer since it couldn't possibly be the domain of the user coder ... Rod Pemberton -- All it takes for humanity to conquer the world's toughest problems is to hope, to believe, to share, and to do, in cooperation.