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Re: Hayes tester fails

From "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Hayes tester fails
Date 2014-01-25 22:53 +1100
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <lc08mn$aqd$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)
References (7 earlier) <lb4j2e$ooc$1@dont-email.me> <lbe3ff$vjv$1@speranza.aioe.org> <2014Jan18.175812@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <lbj79c$rs$1@speranza.aioe.org> <lbjc9c$he5$1@dont-email.me>

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Alex McDonald wrote:
> ...
> Anton says; if there is text (what other standards call normative text)
> and tests (or non-normative text) and the two disagree, then the
> normative text takes precedence.

    Anton Ertl wrote:
    > ...
    > The reason why I wanted test cases in proposals where possible is that
    > proposals written in natural language (as is done in the Forth200x
    > process) is not very precise.  So test cases in Forth are a way of
    > formally specifying a part of what is intended.

It states tests in 200x are formally part of the specification because natural
language is inadequate.  We are informed it has to do with infinite monkey
theorem.

Never mind that a test can never be a specification (a test is a tool created from
an existing well-defined specification).

What it's really about, is a guy who got caught out using tests in a Standard while
attempting to ridicule others' use of tests - and getting himself deeper in shit.
I wouldn't be caught dead defending him, but if that suits your agenda, feel free
to bury yourself in the same hole.




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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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