Might there be a better forum for ANS discussions? comp.lang.forth
comes to mind. There was an ANS-FORTH mailing list at one point and you
might ask around among the committee members from the last go-around what
discussions are under way. This deserves a wider, ANS-focused audience. If
FORML gets restarted (in Reno or Las Vegas?) that would be a good forum.
     As long as we are off-topic, another point you might want to keep in
mind is that the standard CODIFIES EXISTING PRACTICE.
This is from the charter and seems to have been ignored at times even by the
last round of standardizers

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> From: Jerry Avins[SMTP:jya_at_ieee.org]
> Reply To: sftalk_at_forth.com
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 10:51 AM
> To: sftalk_at_forth.com
> Subject: Re: [sftalk] NEW ANS FORTH WORDS PROPOSAL
>
> Jabari Zakiya wrote:
> >
> > NEW ANS FORTH WORDS PROPOSAL
> > Jabari Zakiya jzakiya_at_mail.com
> > 3rdeye Technology, LLC
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > Proposed Words to CORE wordset: +GROW -GROW GET PUT
> ...
> >
> > Compilation Behavior
> > --------------------
> > Each of these words will have a compile time behavior and a
> > run time behavior similar to that for PICK and ROLL.
> > When used inside a colon definition, the run time behavior
> > code will be compiled if no literal value is compiled
> > preceeding the word, such as in : FOO1 ROT GET ;
> > If a literal preceeds these words within a colon defined
> > word then the literal is compiled directly into the
> > instruction by the compler, e.g. in : FOO2 ROT 3 GET ;
> >
> ...
>
> I haven't thought enough yet to comment on the worth of these ideas. One
> issue that comes immediately (pun?) to mind is that these words get
> their arguments either from the stack or from the source code, depending
> on circumstance. This is an optimization issue, and needn't be part of
> the definitions.
>
> Jerry
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> Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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