... wrote in message news:78331111153560@frunobulax.edu... "Ed" <nospam@invalid.com> writes Re: 2nd RfD: Number Prefixes [..] The proposal allows lower-case $ prefixed digits but not for hex numbers when they're not prefixed. There is no rationale for this. It is potentially confusing and can result in standard programs ...

Elizabeth D Rather <eratherXXX@forth.com> writes Re: 2nd RfD: Number Prefixes Marcel Hendrix wrote: "Ed" <nospam@invalid.com> writes Re: 2nd RfD: Number Prefixes [..] [..] I don't support the 'c' syntax as it is redundant and inefficient. For proper context in this Standards discussion: how is your Forth ...

Marcel Hendrix wrote: "Ed" <nospam@invalid.com> writes Re: 2nd RfD: Number Prefixes [..] The proposal allows lower-case $ prefixed digits but not for hex numbers when they're not prefixed. There is no rationale for this. It is potentially confusing and can result in standard programs looking weird. I ...

"Ed" <nospam@invalid.com> writes Re: 2nd RfD: Number Prefixes [..] The proposal allows lower-case $ prefixed digits but not for hex numbers when they're not prefixed. There is no rationale for this. It is potentially confusing and can result in standard programs looking weird. I don't support it. I don't support the 'c' syntax as...

On Aug 10, 4:57 pm, m...@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) wrote: Alex McDonald <b...@rivadpm.com> writes Re: RfD: Number Prefixes [..] I'm surprised by your sentiment that "other programming cultures" shouldn't "bleed into Forth". Forth Inc. imported the culture of Simula and SmallTalk into SwiftForth (http://www.forth.com/swiftforth/ ...

Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> writes Re: RfD: Number Prefixes [..] I'm surprised by your sentiment that "other programming cultures" shouldn't "bleed into Forth". Forth Inc. imported the culture of Simula and SmallTalk into SwiftForth (http://www.forth.com/swiftforth/ swiftforth-6.html) and nobody got injured. Hmm? Simula contains...

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes Re: RfD: Number Prefixes [..] [c8:~/gforth:9592] grep " '[^ ]" *.fs */*.fs|wc -l 443 [c8:~/gforth:9608] fgrep -i '[char]' *.fs */*.fs|wc -l 245 [c8:~/gforth:9609] fgrep -i ' char ' *.fs */*.fs|wc -l 141 Searching for: [char] -- Found 711 occurrence(s) Searching for: char -- Found 3982 occurrence(s) ( using regexp ...

Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> wrote Re: RfD: Number Prefixes Op Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:13:10 GMT schreef Anton Ertl: [..] Yes. I don't think this is common, but at least Albert van der Horst supports that in his systems. In Albert's ciforth quotes within strings are possible by using them twice: "this is ""no"" test." TYPE this is...

... wrote: an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes Re: RfD: Number Prefixes [..] That follows common practice. All systems except iForth and CHForth support it. If mixed case...and other bases <= 36 is standardized, how do we then specify how such numbers are to be *displayed*? In lower case, in upper case, steered with ...

....complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes Re: number parsing hooks (was: RfD: Number Prefixes) [..] Essentially the program has to provide ... string/flag (e.g., push literal numbers) or compile things (e.g., literal numbers). So, such a recognizer would have the stack effect: ... variable stack effect comes from interpreting numbers, among other things. - anton -- M. Anton...