At 02:28 PM 6/29/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>I recently typo'd in "3+" in a definition and found that I got the double
>number
>3.0 -- that is surely not the intended behavior of the number conversion
>routines, is it?
>
>Jeff

Yes, actually it is. See the discussion in Section 4.3 of the SwiftForth
Reference Manual. All legal punctuation (, . + / : and - anywhere but at
the left end of a number) triggers double precision. This has been around
in many Forths since the invention of Forth in the early 70's. It
facilitates input processing of many kinds of formatted numbers, e.g.
229-48-332, 8/03/40, 12:30:45, etc.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

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