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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: X3J14 Holding Pattern Here
- Message-ID: <4017.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 11:51:43 GMT
- Organization: EIEI-U
- Lines: 61
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- Category 10, Topic 12
- Message 193 Sun Aug 23, 1992
- ELLIOTT.C at 10:53 EDT
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- Date: 08-15-92 (02:44)
- To: E.RATHER [ELIZABETH]
- From: MARCEL HENDRIX
- Subj: REFEREE
-
- er> Marcel notes the need for...
- er> >a relatively independent referee with inside ANS
- ^^^^^^
- er> >Forth knowledge
-
- er> I'm a little concerned about the possibility that there
- er> needs to be anyone with knowledge beyond what's written in
- the er> document.
-
- I didn't express myself too exact there. You may leave out the
- ``inside'' qualifier. I hope you'll agree that there must be a
- referee, and that she must be a Forth expert.
-
- I have not received any further information from Dennis, so the
- point is moot anyway.
-
- er> If there are any areas of ambiguity that you see, *please*
- er> write us about them now during this public review period!
-
- You realize that this is a joke on us Europeans. The period is
- one month, and I got the the letter two weeks after it had
- started. Fortunately, we are very happy with the standard as
- it is now (sorry, will be).
-
- The past few months my Forthnet connection has been very bad, so
- I am (probably) not up to date on mailed comments on dpANS-3.
- Jax has suggested that some of the (new) floating-point words
- and even ; were broken, but he didn't go into details. Could
- these be summarized?
-
- I must confess that our ANS (?) tForth (transputer) and iForth
- ('386 in pm) work, but that we simply provide our own words were
- the Standard seems to have ``forgotten'' something (like
- formatted floating-point, strings, or elementary header
- manipulation).
-
- Marcel Hendrix
- Dutch Transputer Forth Workshop
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