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Re: >FLOAT and the empty string

From Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject Re: >FLOAT and the empty string
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
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Date 2013-01-25 02:52 -0600

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Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would have been far more useful IMHO if it were mandatory rather
> than optional.

In hindsight, that's true.  I think that the cases of "should" in
Standard Forth have caused a lot of confusion.

> Also, the dynamic stack signature sucks IMHO! They are the work of
> Satan! But I digress...

Huh?  What is a dynamic stack signature?

Andrew.

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>FLOAT and the empty string "David N. Williams" <williams@umich.edu> - 2013-01-10 19:09 -0500
  Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-01-11 13:32 +1100
  Re: >FLOAT and the empty string anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-01-11 11:11 +0000
    Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-01-11 23:10 +1100
      Re: >FLOAT and the empty string anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-01-23 16:21 +0000
        Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-01-25 13:35 +1100
          Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-01-25 21:33 +1300
            Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-01-25 21:41 +1300
            Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-01-28 22:39 +1100
              Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-01-28 10:36 -1000
                Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-01-29 11:11 +1100
                Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-01-29 03:19 -0600
                Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-01-30 11:03 +1100
  Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-01-11 05:39 -0600
    Re: >FLOAT and the empty string anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-01-23 16:31 +0000
      Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-01-23 10:44 -0600
        Re: >FLOAT and the empty string anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-01-23 17:21 +0000
          Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-01-23 11:50 -0600
            Re: >FLOAT and the empty string anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-01-24 13:09 +0000
              Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-01-24 09:22 -0600
                Re: >FLOAT and the empty string anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-01-24 16:16 +0000
          Re: >FLOAT and the empty string albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-01-24 03:45 +0000
            Re: >FLOAT and the empty string anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-01-24 12:56 +0000
        Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-01-23 16:45 -0800
          Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-01-24 03:43 -0600
            Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-01-24 16:59 +0100
  Re: >FLOAT and the empty string mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2013-01-11 19:32 +0200
    Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "David N. Williams" <williams@umich.edu> - 2013-01-20 10:30 -0500
      Re: >FLOAT and the empty string anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-01-21 16:51 +0000
      Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-01-23 11:42 +1100
        Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-01-23 02:38 -0800
          Re: >FLOAT and the empty string anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-01-23 15:14 +0000
          Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-01-25 14:11 +1100
            Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-01-24 23:33 -0800
              Re: >FLOAT and the empty string Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-01-25 02:52 -0600
              Re: >FLOAT and the empty string "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2013-01-28 22:53 +1100

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