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From: Alex <alex@rivadpm.com>
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On 2/9/2017 22:36, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 1:56:25 AM UTC-7, Alex wrote:
>> On 2/9/2017 06:39, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
>>> ANS-Forth actually has several problems that come from using the
>>> same memory for different things. This has been discussed
>>> before:
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.forth/uGAKvs8baQk%5B26-50%5D
>>>
>>>
>>>
On Friday, December 9, 2016 at 8:11:08 AM UTC-7, hughag...@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 11:23:05 PM UTC-7,
>>>> hughag...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> ANS-Forth is confusing! I was testing my words under VFX just
>>>>> now and came to this:
>>>>>
>>>>> 12345.6789e engineering  ok-2 type 12.345679e32 ok
>>>>>
>>>>> WTF??? Does my code have a bug??? Then I tried this:
>>>>>
>>>>> 12345.6789e engineering type 12.345679e3  ok
>>>>>
>>>>> This works. I realized then that the problem was not in my
>>>>> code, it was in ANS-Forth --- the outer-interpreter uses the
>>>>> same memory location for multiple purposes --- my
>>>>> <SCIENTIFIC> is using the buffer that <# #> uses, and this
>>>>> buffer gets clobbered by the outer-interpreter before the
>>>>> TYPE gets done on the next line.
>>
>> Yes, your code has a bug, since the behaviour you're describing is
>>  covered by the standard. ... It's a bug, since your <SCIENTIFIC>
>> word doesn't work.
>
> There is no bug in my <SCIENTIFIC> --- the ANS-Forth cult's strategy
> seems to be repeatedly to denounce my novice package as having bugs
> without offering any evidence --- this is so ANS-Forth programmers
> won't use my STRING-STACK.4TH etc. because they believe that the
> whole package is full of bugs, and they continue using PAD etc.
> instead because that is "standard."
>

Am I to assume that all your code is bug-free, even when its author says 
it doesn't work?

-- 
Alex