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From: hacker@isadora.ikp.liu.se (Goran Larsson [Hacker of Hackefors])
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ANS TC Magnet for Interpreter
Message-ID: <548@isadora.ikp.liu.se>
Date: 19 Jan 90 19:08:50 GMT
References: <9001172005.AA21025@jade.berkeley.edu>
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In article <9001172005.AA21025@jade.berkeley.edu> Forth Interest Group International List <FIGI-L%SCFVM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:
>> ... discussion about various ways to specify explicit number base ...
>> MB: H# D#
>> RB: %, etc
>> FS: $, h', etc

>RB notes the difficulty with "D#" also being a plausible operator for
>entry of double numbers.  Whatever scheme is chosen should treat the
>"double/single" and "hex/decimal" choices orthogonally, since the
>choices are independent of one another.

In my own forth system designed five years ago I used the base#number
syntax.
Normal numbers:
	16#7F    8#33    10#100    2#10010110   30#HIGH
Double numbers:
        16#FFFFFFFF.     10#100000.
The number representing the base is always interpreted as a decimal
number. The whole thing was implemented inside NUMBER.

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