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Re: Double integer input

From stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Double integer input
Message-ID <5128fc79.914962618@192.168.0.50> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <brWdnQmhLoxDJ7vMnZ2dnUVZ_uKdnZ2d@supernews.com> <kg6fbr$9m5$1@online.de> <2013Feb22.163514@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <H-qdnbjG_ZCNX7rMnZ2dnUVZ_sidnZ2d@supernews.com> <2013Feb23.171502@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
Date 2013-02-23 17:35 +0000

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On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:15:02 GMT, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
(Anton Ertl) wrote:

>However, I believe that having "," in numbers was a mistake.

"We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it
lacks in style" Tom Stoppard

The idea that Forth is cast in stone by standards is not a good one.
We are in danger of making the number input words useless for
application input. It is just a fact that the use of ',' and '.'
varies across several European regions without considering the rest
of the world.

Forth Inc and MPE have different practice for number separators.
The common part is that we want the number input parsing to be
useful for applications as well as the Forth compiler itself.

Stephen

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Double integer input Rosangela Medeiros da Silva <rosangelamesil@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 18:15 -0800
  Re: Double integer input Rosangela Medeiros da Silva <rosangelamesil@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 02:07 -0800
    Re: Double integer input Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-02-14 16:18 +0100
      Re: Double integer input Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-02-14 16:27 +0100
      Re: Double integer input "A. K." <akk@nospam.org> - 2013-02-14 20:54 +0100
        Re: Double integer input Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-02-14 23:20 +0100
  Re: Double integer input "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-22 11:00 +1100
    Re: Double integer input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-21 14:24 -1000
      Re: Double integer input Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-22 01:50 +0100
        Re: Double integer input anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-22 15:35 +0000
          Re: Double integer input Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-22 18:15 +0100
            Re: Double integer input stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2013-02-22 19:02 +0000
            Re: Double integer input anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-23 17:27 +0000
              Re: Double integer input Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-24 03:42 +0100
          Re: Double integer input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-22 09:08 -1000
            Re: Double integer input anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-23 16:15 +0000
              Re: Double integer input stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2013-02-23 17:35 +0000
                Re: Double integer input anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-25 15:25 +0000
              Re: Double integer input albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-02-23 19:34 +0000
                Re: Double integer input "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2013-02-23 18:35 -0500
              Re: Double integer input Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-23 14:58 -0600
                Re: Double integer input Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2013-02-23 22:01 +0100
                Re: Double integer input albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-02-24 04:03 +0000
                Re: Double integer input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-23 18:13 -1000
                Re: Double integer input Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2013-02-24 12:01 +0100
                Re: Double integer input anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-25 18:09 +0000
                Re: Double integer input rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-02-24 15:01 -0500
                Re: Double integer input Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-02-25 01:13 +0100
                Re: Double integer input Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-02-24 23:44 -0800
                Re: Double integer input rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-02-27 07:47 -0500
                Re: Double integer input Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-02-24 23:42 -0800
                Re: Double integer input Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-25 03:57 -0600
                Re: Double integer input albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-02-25 14:09 +0000
                Re: Double integer input Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-25 16:45 +0100
                Re: Double integer input Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-25 18:26 -0600
                Re: Double integer input Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-26 02:04 +0100
                Re: Double integer input Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-26 05:10 -0600
                Re: Double integer input Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-02-26 15:31 +0100
                Re: Double integer input Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-26 10:28 -0600
                Re: Double integer input anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-25 16:38 +0000
              Re: Double integer input rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-02-24 14:54 -0500
                Re: Double integer input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-24 11:59 -1000
                Re: Double integer input anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-25 18:11 +0000
                Re: Double integer input rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-02-27 07:58 -0500
                Re: Double integer input anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-03-02 17:10 +0000
      Re: Double integer input "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-02-22 13:22 +1100
        Re: Double integer input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-21 16:31 -1000
      Re: Double integer input Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-22 04:54 -0800
        Re: Double integer input "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-24 22:05 +0000
          Re: Double integer input Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-02-24 15:02 -0800
          Re: Double integer input Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 09:22 -0800
            Re: Double integer input Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 10:21 -0800
          Re: Double integer input Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-02-26 07:47 -0800
        Re: Double integer input "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-28 06:27 +0000
      Re: Double integer input Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-02-23 21:34 -0800
        Re: Double integer input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-24 08:16 -1000

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