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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Path: sparky!uunet!starnine!mikeh
- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: Environmental Queries
- Message-ID: <BtLzu5.11x@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:03:40 GMT
- References: <4007.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> <l6+n+w-.xtifr@netcom.com>
- Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.
- Lines: 33
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- In article <l6+n+w-.xtifr@netcom.com> xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) writes:
- >In <4007.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
- >
- >>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)
- >
- >> 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.
-
- I agree with your preference. The problem with words that only derive
- strings from the input stream is that it is difficult to compile the
- word and bind a string to it. No standard way, is there?
-
- >
- >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.
-
- I heartily agree. It always seemed to me that ENVIRONMENT? came into
- existance to satisfy one person's needs, with no more thought going into
- how to make it more general purpose.
-
- It's a king of function that needs to be thought out very well before
- being standardized.
-
-