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RfD - Enhanced local variable syntax, v5b

Stephen Pelc — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:29:11 GMT

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Re: SAVE-COMPILATION etc.

Anton Ertl — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:26:53 GMT

... The RfD/CfV process seems to be appropriate for this purpose. A proponent can write an RfD, incorporate the first rounds of feedback, then the proposal

Re: SAVE-COMPILATION etc.

Stephen Pelc — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:56:49 GMT

Posted by Leon in response to Mitch ... I agree. Note also that the two words I proposed were simply a reaction to code ported from bigForth to VFX. I now

Re: SAVE-COMPILATION etc.

Leon Wagner — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:22:44 GMT

... Very well stated. And things that seem experimental should not be considered for inclusion in the standard until they are proven (and more widely used).

Re: SAVE-COMPILATION etc.

Dennis Ruffer — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:55:41 GMT

... Sorry for not reading all my email before sending my earlier email, but as I said there, I suspect that Forth, Inc. and its customers have been using this

Re: SAVE-COMPILATION etc. (was: RfD: XT)

Dennis Ruffer — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:37:15 GMT

I had a thought today, as I am driving across country, that this discussion is very similar in intent as the Forth, Inc. concept called ASSIGN. Elizabeth will

Re: SAVE-COMPILATION etc.

Elizabeth D Rather — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:36:09 GMT

... My concern is that during the last round, Greg Bailey and several others were absolutely adamant that there should be no nested compilation allowed. I no

Re: SAVE-COMPILATION etc.

Mitch Bradley — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:28:10 GMT

... It's true that FCode is easy to "detokenize" back to source, but that fact is not necessarily salient because FCode comprises only a part of Open Firmware.

Re: SAVE-COMPILATION etc.

Anton Ertl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:55:36 GMT

... The way I heard it was that Fcode is a tokenized representation of source code, so I would expect it to be easier to recreate something source-like from

Re: SAVE-COMPILATION etc.

Mitch Bradley — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:41:39 GMT

... That works great if you have the source handy. I have been supporting Open Firmware implementations on various platforms for almost 20 years now. I often

SAVE-COMPILATION etc. (was: RfD: XT)

Anton Ertl — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:30:25 GMT

... IIRC there has been a discussion not that long ago where people wanted to define a table in the middle of a colon definition. So that would be another

Re: RfD: XT

Hugh Aguilar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:54:12 GMT

Okay then --- the XT RfD is withdrawn. ________________________________ From: Leon Wagner To: forth200x@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, October 13,

Re: RfD: XT

Leon Wagner — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:45:19 GMT

This discussion has veered wildly off course and has become somewhat uncivil. I am inclined to delete any further traffic on this topic. The referenced RfD

Re: RfD: XT

Hugh Aguilar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:59:50 GMT

From: Elizabeth D Rather To: forth200x@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, October 13, 2009 1:26:11 AM Subject: Re: [forth200x] Re: RfD: XT

Re: RfD: XT

Hugh Aguilar — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:21:07 GMT

... These words would support recursive generators. By comparison, my XT would support only iterative generators in which the generator exits from the top