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- From: uho@informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Ulrich Hoffmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Sampler Forth
- Message-ID: <11130@minnie.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 12:14:52 GMT
- References: <4303@wet.UUCP> <11041@minnie.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de> <0vsntpa.xtifr@netcom.com>
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Kiel, FRG
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- In <0vsntpa.xtifr@netcom.com> xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) writes:
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- uh>>In this sense, a 'smudge' bit becomes really nasty, since not FIG, nor F83/F-PC
- uh>>allow for full 8-Bit characters in word names :-(.
-
- >FIG and F-PC may use the "smudge" bit, but it's not a requirement of the
- >Forth 83 standard by any means.
-
- I'm well aware that the smudge bit is not required by Forth 83 nor dpANS.
- Unfortunately FIG and F-PC make use of the smudge bit and they are widely used.
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- We once asked Tom Zimmer, if he would mind to abandon termination of word names
- by characters with high bit set and allow full 8 Bit characters in word names.
- The answer was, that the effect of eliminating this could have unpredicatble
- effects on existing code and that he will not change it.
- (Sorry if I misinterpreted you, Tom.)
-
- >In fact, you can even have a fairly traditional header without it.
-
- Indeed there is really no need for smudge or terminating word names with special
- characters. We've been working with an appropriate implementation scheme in volksFORTH
- for years.
-
- Greetings,
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-
-
- Ulrich
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- Ulrich Hoffmann email: uh@informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de
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