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Re: Double integer input

From Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Double integer input
Date 2013-02-22 01:50 +0100
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Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> Because FORTH, Inc's heritage was making telescope control systems, we
> have always allowed most internal punctuation to make double precision
> integers: . , - (phone#s, social security #s, etc.), / (dates), even :
> (angles). But almost nobody picked up this practice. Too bad, it's
> extremely convenient!

I once had this in bigForth, too, and this went over to early versions of 
Gforth.  As nobody used it, we dropped that feature.  I had ",-./" as 
allowed separators, because they are in line in ASCII.  The code didn't 
change much when I reduced to . and , as allowed separators in bigForth (in 
Gforth, it's . only), it's now disallowing odd separators.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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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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