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Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard
Date 2014-07-03 17:07 -0400
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On 7/3/2014 2:48 PM, Roger Levy wrote:
>> Then I think we agree.  I have no idea what it is you feel is off the mark.
>
> See my previous message ;)  Bad choice of words.
>
> The only thing I contested really was the "problems? not really" judgment.  To me, cell width is a problem, just not one with a silver bullet solution..  So you can't standardize, and you can't code for all platforms at once, but you can try, when it's appropriate.

I'm not sure why you can't code for all cell widths.  I suppose there is 
a problem of counting range, but otherwise it is not hard to make no 
assumption about cell width and so work equally well on any machine.

But then maybe I don't know the issues.

-- 

Rick

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Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-07-02 12:18 -0400
  Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-07-02 10:11 -0700
  Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 09:33 -0700
    Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 09:39 -0700
      Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-07-03 17:12 +0000
        Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 10:52 -0700
          Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-07-03 11:53 -0700
    Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 14:05 -0400
      Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 11:48 -0700
        Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-07-03 11:55 -0700
        Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 17:07 -0400
          Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 15:20 -0700
            Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 19:29 -0400
          Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-07-03 15:23 -0700
            Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-07-04 14:35 -0400
              Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-07-04 09:24 -1000
              Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-07-04 19:32 -0700
        Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-07-04 14:19 +0000
    Re: Purpose of the ANS Forth Standard "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-07-03 14:50 -1000

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