Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:13:31 -0500 Reply-To: erather@forth.com Subject: Re: New Gforth "qixi" Snapshot References: <0e5e5f4b-c3b5-422b-a6bb-3cb308df3193@googlegroups.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth From: "Elizabeth D. Rather" Organization: FORTH, Inc. Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:13:31 -1000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 38 X-Trace: sv3-PLX6NagR2I6HC9JmvXKZETpp5QWiWB4Vv74Ud01GAO0Q/ShZBtD3dZFKf4AnmiMMFKn8Gmo847DE0Gt!umZKNUVavy4DqoIOcKmt3jOgbHGQyjsC8z8xEovI2L2RNBdgfARqeMrQE5BT4lz50Qohsb4tyC+g!/I/8cFx/G5Q= X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2772 X-Received-Bytes: 2884 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3905371243 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:41504 On 8/23/15 10:37 PM, Mark Wills wrote: > On Monday, 24 August 2015 09:11:24 UTC+1, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote: >> On 8/23/15 4:10 PM, rickman wrote: >>> On 8/23/2015 9:16 PM, borota@gmail.com wrote: >>>> It looks like the issue is reproducible on my machine. >>>> Where should I send you .gforth-history file? >>>> >>>> 5 dup * . 19 ok >>>> base @ . 10 ok >>> >>> So what base is that? >>> >> >> Hello? The word . prints out TOS using the current BASE. Therefore, >> whatever BASE is set to, the phrase 'base @ .' will display 10. > > ^^^ what Elizabeth said! > > decimal base @ . > > FIFY :-) Actually, base @ decimal . would be more revealing. :-) Cheers, Elizabeth -- ================================================== Elizabeth D. Rather (US & Canada) 800-55-FORTH FORTH Inc. +1 310.999.6784 5959 West Century Blvd. Suite 700 Los Angeles, CA 90045 http://www.forth.com "Forth-based products and Services for real-time applications since 1973." ==================================================