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Subject: ANS TC Magnet for Division
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Date: 6 Aug 90 03:28:28 GMT
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Category 10,  Topic 17
Message 74        Fri Aug 03, 1990
R.BERKEY [Robert]            at 00:41 PDT
 
  I have talked with some dozen people in the last couple of weeks concerning
division in particular.  Some groups of opinion include:

A favoring of change to the semantics of / relative to Forth-83 independent of
technical issues.

Objection to the new semantics of / as defined in BASIS.

I am also not hearing the same pattern of issues regarding /MOD and MOD as
concerns / .

Support for increasing the role of unsigned division with single precision
operators is generally favorable.  There is, however, at least some objection
to adding "new" division operators, and whether a single precision U/ is in
widespread use has been questioned.  The naming issue is unclear.

I can go into more detail on each of these issues.  If you have interest or
opinion, my phone number is (415) 659-1334 x352.

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