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Subject: ANS TC Magnet for Interpreter
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Date: 14 Jan 90 03:55:00 GMT
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Category 10,  Topic 24
Message 6         Sat Jan 13, 1990
R.BERKEY [Robert]            at 17:34 PST
 
 
 To: Mitch Bradley
 Re: Numeral Case-sensitivity in Case-insensitive Forths
     Case Sensitivity Considerations for User Defined Numeral Syntax

Related to the previous message on numeral syntax are prior comments by Gene
LeFave and Roedy Green encouraging user defined extensions to the numeral
syntax.

In that same area, there is currently a dispute brewing with case insensitive
Forth's not being case sensitive for number interpretation.  Might rub C
programmer's expectations raw for hexadecimal 12a4 getting aborted, I don't
know the answer.  But I recall having a problem with ForthMacs because it
didn't understand hexadecimal 12A4 .  Yet everyone would agree that 'A' and
'a' should be different (unlike F-PC interpretation).

Robert Berkey

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