Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM!wmb From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: More division Message-ID: <9008011406.AA07845@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 1 Aug 90 06:34:27 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Mitch Bradley Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 Dr. Wavrik claims that the Forth community ought to absolutely agree on a common set of basic words. I agree. However, my experience suggests that "/" is not going to be one of them. Hopefully, SM/MOD and FM/MOD can be agreed upon. Wishing very hard for something won't always make it so. I wish that "/" could be precisely specified in a way that everybody would agree upon. Many other people wish for this too. However, the ANS Forth committee tried for 2 or 3 years to reach such agreement, and it just didn't happen. Finally, the reality of the impasse sunk in, and a compromise was reached to allow other work to proceed. Things like this sometimes happen in the real world. Welcome to it. Mitch