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Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th"

From Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th"
Date 2013-12-02 17:15 +0200
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On 12/02/2013 10:17 AM, visualforth@rocketmail.com wrote:>

> Would it be possible to add these innovations to standard Forth
versions using a special vocabulary with these innovations for switching
between standard Forth and 8th Forth?

Probably, if one wanted to invest the time to do that.

> Question: how does this work with the dotted number? A dotted number
normally
> is a double precision number.

In 8th a number is a number.  There is no distinction between "integers"
and "floats", it handles them both using the smallest size it can.  Not
implemented yet, but it is planned to expand to "big integers" if necessary.

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Upcoming beta release of "8th" Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 21:12 +0200
  Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Spam@ControlQ.com - 2013-11-27 15:05 -0500
    Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-11-27 22:20 +0200
      Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-28 02:10 -0800
        Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 12:46 +0200
      Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2013-12-02 00:17 -0800
        Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-02 01:01 -0800
          Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-12-02 17:17 +0200
        Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-12-02 17:15 +0200
  Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 04:26 -0800
    Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 16:16 +0200
      Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 13:23 -0800
        Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-11-28 11:32 -1000
        Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-11-29 09:50 +0200
  Re: Upcoming beta release of "8th" Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2014-01-05 19:40 +0200

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