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Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated?

From Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated?
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
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Date 2013-10-17 04:40 -0500

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Rod Pemberton <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 04:53:52 -0400, Andrew Haley  
> <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
>> Rod Pemberton <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> wrote:
> ...
> 
>>> I described what is required according to the charter.
>>> How is it that what I described not required by the charter?
>>
>> As I've already explained: a) I don't think that "discussion about
>> Forth" constitutes a charter,
> 
> How can you say it doesn't constitute a charter when it's the
> actual charter?  Isn't that an example of irrational?
> 
> I provided a link that in the last post to the archived charter instead
> of quoting it.

That was a newsgroup creation message, I think.

>>> You don't understand that non-Forth discussion is off-topic?
>>> Really?  Seriously?  That's what you just said ...  You said that
>>> previously too.
>>
>> There's nothing non-Forth about the phrase "carnal knowledge".
> 
> Irrelevant.

It's the crux of the matter.  If the question is topicality, then it
matters very much.  The fact that "carnal knowledge" is a sexual
metaphor matters not a jot.

>>> That's what is stated almost every time someone discusses
>>> fig-Forth or Forth-83 instead of ANS Forth...  Those have
>>> standards or formal documents to back them up too.  That
>>> perspective would clearly be part of any future moderation policy
>>> and likely would implicitly be a part of: "Discussions about
>>> Forth."  So, from that perspective, closures and coroutines aren't
>>> part of Forth, even if implemented.  They're not documented as
>>> part of a standard, ANS predominantly.
>>
>> So what?  There's no statement anywhere that Forth means only Standard
>> Forth.  And where would people discuss the new standard, which, by
>> definition, contains things not in the current standard?
> 
> If C is off-topic due to a moderation policy, where would people discuss
> C for a Forth coded in C, like GForth? ...

You're being evasive.  Where would people discuss the new standard?

> If C is off-topic due to a moderation policy, where would people discuss
> C for a Forth coded in C, like GForth? ...

If it was relevant to a Forth coded in C, it wouldn't be off-topic.

Andrew.

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Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-11 22:55 -0700
  Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-10-11 23:17 -0700
    Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-10-12 22:43 -0400
      Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-14 17:06 -0700
        Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-10-14 23:22 -0700
          Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-15 16:36 -0700
  Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-10-12 05:05 -0400
    Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-10-12 05:44 -0500
      Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-10-12 20:16 -0400
        Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-10-12 21:04 -1000
        Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-10-13 02:21 -0500
          Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-10-13 06:28 -0400
            Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-10-13 05:53 -0500
              Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? mentifex@myuw.net - 2013-10-13 06:59 -0700
              Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-10-14 03:19 -0400
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-10-13 22:00 -1000
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-14 17:17 -0700
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-10-14 03:50 -0500
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-14 17:19 -0700
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-10-14 22:03 -0400
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-10-15 03:56 -0500
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-10-17 03:21 -0400
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-10-17 03:53 -0500
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-10-17 05:25 -0400
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-10-17 04:40 -0500
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 06:43 -0700
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-10-18 16:00 +0200
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-10-18 08:56 -1000
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-10-19 04:03 -0500
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                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-10-21 11:51 +0000
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-10-21 12:24 -0700
                Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-14 17:15 -0700
  Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-10-12 07:18 -0700
  Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-12 22:27 -0700
    Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-10-13 06:28 -0400
  Re: Anyone else wish this was Moderated? "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-12 22:33 -0700

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