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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> Do such small systems support FP at all?  AmForth does not, judging by
> its reference card.

I thought the whole motivation for recognizers was that AmForth had
optional floating point and Matthias wanted a way to cleanly make
parsing of FP numbers optional too.