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Re: Hayes tester fails

From "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Hayes tester fails
Date 2014-01-19 01:33 +1100
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <lbe3ff$vjv$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)
References (3 earlier) <2014Jan9.135754@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <laqjkl$nqs$1@speranza.aioe.org> <2014Jan13.171841@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <lb4hco$1mj$1@speranza.aioe.org> <lb4j2e$ooc$1@dont-email.me>

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Alex McDonald wrote:
> ...
> There are non normative parts to many (I'd reckon on most) standards, and
> language standards are not excluded from having them; nor do such non
> normative statements make them implementation standards. In fact, ANS
> Forth and the Forth200x update have many ambiguous conditions for
> implementors to implement as they see fit, from cell size to error
> handling and more.

Those things are fully specified in the text, including the 'ambiguous conditions'.
No problem there.  Problems arise when one adds a second authority which
competes with the text e.g. sample code or tests.  When the sample code
differs from the text, which has precedence?  The same issue with tests.

ANS was careful to include its sample code in the Rationale - an informal
non-binding section containing information supplied in good faith but without
guarantee.  If anyone were to find a bug or feature in one of the ANS code
samples they would not be able to claim it was 'standard'.

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Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-08 02:20 +1100
  Re: Hayes tester fails "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-01-07 21:15 +0000
  Re: Hayes tester fails "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-01-07 21:20 +0000
  Re: Hayes tester fails anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-08 14:58 +0000
    Re: Hayes tester fails "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-01-08 19:53 -0500
    Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-09 21:49 +1100
      Re: Hayes tester fails anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-09 12:57 +0000
        Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-11 16:06 +1100
          Re: Hayes tester fails "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-01-11 10:28 -0500
          Re: Hayes tester fails anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-13 16:18 +0000
            Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-15 10:29 +1100
              Re: Hayes tester fails "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-01-15 00:00 +0000
                Re: Hayes tester fails AKK <akk@nospam.org> - 2014-01-15 02:06 +0100
                Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-19 01:33 +1100
                Re: Hayes tester fails anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-18 16:58 +0000
                Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-21 00:09 +1100
                Re: Hayes tester fails "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-01-20 14:36 +0000
                Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-25 22:53 +1100
                Re: Hayes tester fails "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-01-25 23:21 +0000
                Re: Hayes tester fails anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-21 14:50 +0000
              Re: Hayes tester fails "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-01-15 02:40 -0500
                Re: Hayes tester fails "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-14 21:52 -1000
                Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-19 00:10 +1100
              Re: Hayes tester fails Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-15 03:28 -0600
      Re: Hayes tester fails "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-01-11 10:30 -0500
        Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-13 10:45 +1100
  Re: Hayes tester fails Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-09 02:51 -0800
    Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-09 22:12 +1100
      Re: Hayes tester fails Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-09 06:44 -0800
        Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-11 16:14 +1100
          Re: Hayes tester fails Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-11 02:35 -0800
          Re: Hayes tester fails Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-01-11 13:46 +0100
            Re: Hayes tester fails "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-13 11:16 +1100

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