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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:59:21 GMT
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mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes:
>> 1_0 2_0 + . \ output: 30
>
>Sorry, I really don't like this. It takes away my
>underlying mental model of how things should work.
>What happens for "10_ 20_ + ." ?

It outputs 30, too.  The intended use of _ in Gforth is like this:

100_000_000_000 20_000_000_000 + . \ outputs 120000000000

or with groups of 4 for those environments where that is conventional.

What does your underlying mental model say how things should work?

- anton
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