Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: value-flavoured structures Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:32:43 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2024Oct3.183243@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <2024Sep13.200734@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <66e4f98b$1@news.ausics.net> <2024Sep14.081952@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2024Sep15.181634@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Injection-Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:42:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="edb3a3d11159eaa50edc5310324eeb6b"; logging-data="3983317"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rzHCBXXi6IyOvbTDmwM15" Cancel-Lock: sha1:skmYqC9iBx1jwH5kQ6pSQe+b6NA= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 Bytes: 2133 minforth@gmx.net (minforth) writes: >Introduce variant data-types, as some BASIC compilers have, >you really have to invent a new 'Forthish' dialect. Probably >useless for embedded applications. Joerg Voelker works on embedded projects and found value-flavoured fields useful already in 2017 . Nick Nelson works on (bigger) embedded projects and also finds value-flavoured fields useful. See - anton -- M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html New standard: https://forth-standard.org/ EuroForth 2024: https://euro.theforth.net