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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: VALUE and TO implementation
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:18:00 GMT
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mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes:
>On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 12:26:26 +0000, dxf wrote:
>> Don't know but to this day Mitch Bradley (ANS, Open Firmware) still uses
>> parsing words to interpret hex, double, float numbers.
>
>"de gustibus non disputandum est."
>
>> He also uses state-smart words.
>
>Show me a Forther *without* strong opinions *and* unfathomable
>inconsistencies.

In this case it's actually consistent: Mitch Bradley finds the
pitfalls of STATE-smart words acceptable, so he uses such words to
deal with various literals.

I, OTOH, don't consider them to be acceptable, so I prefer
recognizers, like the standard already has for words, single and
double integer numbers, and FP numbers.

- anton
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