Re: Ann: 8th 17.05 released

From	Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Ann: 8th 17.05 released
Date	2017-06-13 15:01 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 13/06/2017 14:54, minforth@arcor.de wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2017 13:19:06 UTC+2 schrieb Ron Aaron:

>> I'm most proud of the dynamically resizing stack...
> 
> Congratulations! 8th brings fresh ideas to the Forth worls most certainly.

Thank you.

> I am just wondering where dynamically growing stacks might be useful.
> At first glance I am sceptical because I might miss stack overflow bugs,

Ah, but it eliminates them!  On the other hand,

> or sometimes worse, valuable memory resources are claimed beyond my control. 

That is a more serious concern.  The next release will allow to shrink a
stack manually.

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Ann: 8th 17.05 released Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 14:18 +0300
  Re: Ann: 8th 17.05 released Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 04:51 -0700
    Re: Ann: 8th 17.05 released Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 15:01 +0300
    Re: Ann: 8th 17.05 released Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-06-13 10:38 -0500
      Re: Ann: 8th 17.05 released Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 19:40 +0300
  Re: Ann: 8th 17.05 released minforth@arcor.de - 2017-06-13 04:54 -0700
    Re: Ann: 8th 17.05 released Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 15:01 +0300

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