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- From: jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr)
- Subject: Re: New Book: _Forth: the New Model_
- Message-ID: <jax.724558259@well.sf.ca.us>
- Keywords: forth,embedded,control,systems,ans,dpans,x3j14,standard
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- References: <jax.724484373@well.sf.ca.us> <BzCxLu.DHK@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:10:59 GMT
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- In <BzCxLu.DHK@news.iastate.edu> bible@iastate.edu (Anthony E Bible) writes:
-
- >In article <jax.724484373@well.sf.ca.us> jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
-
- >>_Forth: the New Model_ by Jack J. Woehr (Hi, Mom!) M&T Books 1992,
- >>ISBN 1-55851-277-2.
-
- > This not a flame (not even an ember) but a sincere question: How can
- >you already have a book coming out on ANS Forth (considering publishing
- >lead-times and the fact the standard is still in process) without it being as
- >out-of-date as the earlier Basis documents? What is the likelihood there will
- >have to be extensive revisions for a second edition?
-
- First of all, my final draft for the publisher was October, 1992.
-
- The BASIS has been pretty stable since about dpANS-2, which was
- voted in August, 1991. There were some changes at the October meeting
- that affected the material covered in the book, but they are not earth
- shaking. The two most important are as follows:
-
- 1) TIB and #TIB were moved to Core Extensions and deprecated
- in favor of the new Core word
-
- SOURCE ( --- c-addr u)
-
- which, as you can guess, returns the address and count of the
- current input stream.
-
- My book talks about TIB and #TIB.
-
- 2) SLITERAL ( c-addr u --) C STRING
-
- was added, which is interesting, but again not earthshaking.
-
- >Actually that was two sincere questions.
-
- And the sincere answer to both is, buy up my book in its
- current form and it will hasten the day when M&T orders up the
- 2nd, Expanded and Revised Edition!
-
- Thanx for asking, Tony!
-
- =jax=
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