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- From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
- Subject: Re: Environmental Queries
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- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 22:25:39 GMT
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- In <4007.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
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- >Category 10, Topic 33
- >Message 10 Fri Aug 21, 1992
- >B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad] at 22:49 EDT
- >
- > ANSI X3J14 FORTH TECHNICAL PROPOSAL
- > (X3J14 dpANS-3, March 1992)
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- > Note: if the related proposal, "ENVIRONMENT? should take
- > text from input stream" is adopted, then I withdraw this
- > proposal as no longer being necessary.
-
- I prefer the current proposal (make S" interpretive in CORE), but I
- would definitely support either of these proposals.
-
- > Objections.
-
- > It has been pointed out that most implementors will include
- > an interpretive behavior for S" anyway, and so it need not
- > be included in the standard. This overlooks the fact that,
- > no matter what is provided by the vendors, no program can be
- > a "Standard Program" if it uses S" interpretively. At best,
- > it can only be a Standard Program with an environmental
- > dependency on the File-Access word set.
-
- > If all implementors will include interpretive S", there is
- > no harm in mandating this behavior in the standard. If this
- > is how the Committee believes ENVIRONMENT? should be used,
- > interpretive S" should be mandated in the standard.
-
- I'm leaving this quote in, simply because I think that this is excellent
- reasoning, and I agree wholeheartedly.
-
- The current definition of ``ENVIRONMENT?'' seems very poor to me, and I
- think that either of Brad's proposals here would provide an excellent
- and robust alternative.
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