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Re: Questions about strings

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Questions about strings
Date 2015-10-22 11:21 +1000
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HAA wrote:
> rickman wrote:
> >
> > The standard requires the value on the stack to be a cell, but does that
> > require that s" be capable of working with string lengths longer than
> > will fit in a byte if there is some internal limitation of the
> > implementation?
>
> AFAIK it doesn't say.  If it did it would need to specify a minimum as with:
> - The maximum length of a counted string shall be at least 255.
> - The size of the region identified by WORD shall be at least 33 characters.

Correction.

3.4.1 Parsing
Unless otherwise noted, the number of characters parsed may be from
zero to the implementation-defined maximum length of a counted string.

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Questions about strings Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 06:46 -0700
  Re: Questions about strings rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 11:25 -0400
    Re: Questions about strings Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 10:43 -0700
      Re: Questions about strings anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-17 17:52 +0000
      Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-17 07:56 -1000
      Re: Questions about strings rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 14:07 -0400
      Re: Questions about strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-10-18 12:50 +1000
  Re: Questions about strings Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 19:30 +0300
  Re: Questions about strings anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-17 17:10 +0000
  Re: Questions about strings Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-17 10:41 -0700
    Re: Questions about strings foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-10-17 21:41 -0700
    Re: Questions about strings Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 15:40 -0700
      Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-18 13:41 -1000
        Re: Questions about strings Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 07:58 -0700
          Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-19 08:36 -1000
          Re: Questions about strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-10-23 00:08 +1000
      Re: Questions about strings anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-19 07:15 +0000
        Re: Questions about strings Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 05:03 -0700
          Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-19 08:38 -1000
            Re: Questions about strings Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 14:28 -0700
            Re: Questions about strings Alfred Singlestone <vitonis@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 16:21 -0700
              Re: Questions about strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-10-22 11:07 +1000
                Re: Questions about strings Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-10-27 11:29 +0100
                Re: Questions about strings Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 06:14 -0700
                Re: Questions about strings Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-10-27 15:04 +0100
                Re: Questions about strings Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 07:01 -0700
                Re: Questions about strings Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-10-27 15:04 +0100
                Re: Questions about strings Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 14:26 -0700
                Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-27 11:45 -1000
                Re: Questions about strings Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-10-28 07:43 +0100
        Re: Questions about strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-10-19 23:25 +1000
      Re: Questions about strings rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 14:47 -0400
        Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-20 09:48 -1000
          Re: Questions about strings rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 23:25 -0400
            Re: Questions about strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-10-21 15:11 +1000
              Re: Questions about strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-10-22 11:21 +1000
                Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-21 18:31 -1000
                Re: Questions about strings anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-22 05:51 +0000
                Re: Questions about strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-10-24 12:44 +1000
                Re: Questions about strings anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-25 10:17 +0000
                Re: Questions about strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-10-26 15:14 +1100
                Re: Questions about strings anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-26 11:20 +0000
                Re: Questions about strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-10-31 00:20 +1100
                Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-30 19:06 -1000
                Re: Questions about strings Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-30 23:27 -0700
                Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-30 21:28 -1000
                Re: Questions about strings Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-31 00:37 -0700
                Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-30 21:48 -1000
          Re: Questions about strings anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-21 06:10 +0000
  Re: Questions about strings Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 10:48 -0700
    Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-31 09:57 -1000
      Re: Questions about strings Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 13:34 -0700
        Re: Questions about strings "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-31 12:06 -1000
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