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Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma

From Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.arch.embedded, comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma
Date 2016-04-04 12:46 +0300
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On 04/04/2016 12:17, Albert van der Horst wrote:

> You can have a certain leeway as implementor, because non-ascii characters
> are "implementation defined". This makes the use of the IBM box-printing
> characters a portable program with dependancies.

Right; I assumed that since Forths parse whitespace-delimited words, any
bytes which are not whitespace would be ok for names.


> I've a different strategy in ciforth. A name is a string of bytes,
> not characters. That is why I detest case insensitivity.

Me too :o

...
> A practical application is com-4e5 . Any function keys are just
> stored in the dictionary. Press a function key while in communication
> mode and it will just be executed. Press an as yet undefined key
> and you get the chance to define it.

That is very cool, hadn't thought of that idea.

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Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 17:49 -0400
  Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-03 06:23 +0000
    Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-04-03 02:59 -0400
    Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-03 23:14 +0000
      Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 07:18 +0300
        Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 07:48 +0300
  Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma upsidedown@downunder.com - 2016-04-03 09:45 +0300
  Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Nils M Holm <nmh@ananda.local> - 2016-04-03 07:32 +0000
  Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2016-04-03 05:25 -0400
    Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-03 17:22 -0500
  Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Norbert_Paul <norbertpauls_spambin@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-03 14:05 +0200
  Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2016-04-03 14:18 +0200
    Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma upsidedown@downunder.com - 2016-04-03 20:24 +0300
      Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> - 2016-04-03 21:05 +0300
        Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-04-04 09:00 +0000
      Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-04-03 21:16 +0300
        Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-04-04 09:17 +0000
          Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 12:46 +0300
            Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-05 06:02 +0000
      Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-03 23:21 +0000
        Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-04 07:11 +0000
          Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-04 21:11 +0000
      Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-04 00:13 -0500
        Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma "Boudewijn Dijkstra" <sp4mtr4p.boudewijn@indes.com> - 2016-04-04 14:06 +0200
      Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-04-05 03:32 +0100
        Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma upsidedown@downunder.com - 2016-04-05 09:56 +0300
          Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-04-05 10:03 +0000
            Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-05 21:42 +0000
          Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2016-04-05 11:11 -0400
            Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-04-05 11:33 -0500
            Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-06 12:50 +0000
        Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-04-05 07:15 +0000
          Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-05 21:50 +0000
            Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-04-06 01:18 +0300
              Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Charles Allen <ccallen@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2016-04-06 15:20 +0000
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-04-06 18:58 +0300
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Ed Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 07:04 -0700
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2016-04-07 23:40 +0200
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma lasselangwadtchristensen@gmail.com - 2016-04-07 16:04 -0700
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-04-08 09:50 +0200
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 01:01 -0400
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-04-09 13:48 +0200
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2016-04-11 18:52 +0000
              Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2016-04-08 23:11 +0000
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-04-09 03:19 +0300
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Ed Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 15:04 -0700
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-04-10 01:49 +0300
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Ed Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 11:48 -0700
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-04-12 22:53 +0300
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2016-04-12 23:03 +0100
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-04-13 09:21 +0200
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2016-04-13 16:51 +0100
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2016-04-11 18:52 +0000
                Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-04-11 23:39 +0300
      Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Ed Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 06:39 -0700

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