RfD: Make ENVIRONMENT? obsolescent24399 (7/4/2012 9:21:22 PM) comp.lang.forth Make ENVIRONMENT? obsolecent
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20120704 Initial proposal
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The Forth-94 standard specified an environmental query system, which
allows to query the system ... Bernd
[forth200x] RfD: Drop execution semantics of LEAVE and UNLOOP1146 (5/9/2012 5:42:13 PM) comp.lang.forth Problem: LEAVE and UNLOOP are defined to have no interpretation semantics, but an execution semantics. This implies that ['] LEAVE EXECUTE is equivalent to LEAVE within a loop body. I checked Gforth, bigFo... Bernd
Redesigning Forth's word headers2539 (5/8/2012 1:28:33 AM) comp.lang.forth There have been some header ideas for Gforth from Anton around for years, featuring an intelligent COMPILE, and some sort of quite-unified token, but not-quite-so, as this unified token was the nt, and would ... Bernd
CfV: Xchar wordset (formatting repost)037 (2/14/2010 8:24:04 PM) comp.lang.forth [This is a formatting repost to prevent line breaks, all tabs are replaced by spaces. Also, test cases have been added] This is actually a poll about how widely the proposal is implemented and how popular it i... Bernd
CfV: Xchar wordset5838 (2/13/2010 7:36:38 PM) comp.lang.forth This is actually a poll about how widely the proposal is implemented and how popular it is among the programmers. It is called a CfV (call-for-votes) because the process is inspired by the Usenet Rdf/CfV proce... Bernd
[ANN] bigForth mailing lists044 (12/31/2009 5:46:39 PM) comp.lang.forth As Anton already mentioned, the ChaosSolution.org mailing lists no longer work. I also moved the bigForth mailing lists away. There are two: bigforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net bigforth-minos@lists.source... Bernd
RfD: Xchar wordset, version 4032 (8/23/2009 7:33:42 PM) comp.lang.forth RfD: Xchar wordset 23 August 2009, Bernd Paysan Change history: 20090823 A few more edits to get fourth version 20090717 Edits made to bring proposal in shape 20090325 Edits made at Forth200x review meeting 2... Bernd
RfD: XCHAR wordset (Version 3)6736 (11/23/2008 9:36:35 PM) comp.lang.forth At the last meeting, we decided to bring the XCHAR wordset to progress to CfV, so before we do this, here's the current document. The Xchar proposal is one foundation for i18n, so it should be through the proc... Bernd
New Gforth snapshots154 (10/26/2008 9:54:25 PM) comp.lang.forth Hi all of you who are waiting for the next release: I've created new snapshots, source and Windows setup.exe: http://www.paysan.nom/~bernd/gforth-0.6.9-20081026.tar.gz http://www.paysan.nom/~bernd/gforth-0.6.... Bernd
Gforth snapshot for Windows162 (10/6/2008 9:21:19 PM) comp.lang.forth There's now a working Gforth snapshot available with maybe some minor issues. You can find it here: http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/gforth-0.6.9-20081006.exe I've given it a small amount of testing. Bugs I alread... Bernd
Latest from Chuck's Blog1231 (8/14/2012 5:35:07 PM) comp.lang.forth >> GreenArrays has received more chips. Some 35,000 in inventory (That's 5,000,000 computers). Buy now and avoid the Christmas rush.
So, they must be selling some, which means somebody must want them. Neat... jasondamisch(252)
continue equivalent in Forth?6448 (8/19/2012 2:28:42 AM) comp.lang.forth When I am in a begin-while-repeat loop, I sometimes would like to go to the top of the loop. The "continue" keyword in C is what would help me perfectly here. Is there a "continue" like word in Forth?
... programmingkidx(18)
Comparative Productivity of Programming Languages164105 (8/22/2012 4:43:56 AM) comp.lang.forth Today I read an Dr.Dobb's article named=20
"The Comparative Productivity of Programming Languages"
They say "The problem is that measuring productivity is invariably viewed a=
s more of an art than scienti... visualforth(74)
Single Step Debugging, why or why not?2143 (8/30/2012 6:27:20 PM) comp.lang.forth I thought that I had my brain wrapped around the issue of single stepping a=
nd why it may be discouraged in Forth. But, then recently my brain went 't=
hump' and straightened itself out. So, I wanted to as... jasondamisch(252)
[Forth200x] Current Standings: S>F and F>S141 (8/31/2012 10:30:04 AM) comp.lang.forth Poll standings
See below for voting instructions.
Systems
[ ] conforms to ANS Forth.
VFX Forth (Windows, OSX, Linux, DOS ...) (Stephen Pelc)
MPE Forth cross compilers (all targets) (Stephen P... anton(5253)
Buffer access with bounds checking...2557 (8/31/2012 1:51:58 PM) comp.lang.forth While writing about memory buffer overruns in a different thread
earlier today, I was inspired to have a bash at writing some
code that would allow safe read/write access to memory buffers.
I came up with ... markrobertwills(871)
GA144 Instruction Timing2642 (8/11/2012 10:54:24 PM) comp.lang.forth Anyone know the timing of a unext instruction when it is looping? I
think it would just be 2.4 ns with no adder for the instruction fetch
since there would be no instruction fetch.
The data book talks a... gnuarm(2644)
Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape6048 (8/7/2012 1:21:33 PM) comp.lang.forth I'm working on a retro computing project, a 6502 Forth implementation for t=
he Commodore PET 2001. https://github.com/chitselb/pettil if you're curiou=
s. The goal is for the language to be fast, tight, an... chitselb(40)
Copyright issues with Forth200x draft2037 (8/3/2012 10:34:11 PM) comp.lang.forth
While some of the tests in Annex G of the Forth200x draft may be new and
specifically written for the draft, I recognized that some of them come from
copyrighted Hayes core code.
The issue is that the Ha... do_not_have6502(201)