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Subject: ANS FORTH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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Date: 27 Aug 90 03:30:59 GMT
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Category 10,  Topic 2
Message 229       Sun Aug 26, 1990
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad R.]       at 16:33 EDT
 
Is this for real?

This proposal seems to guarantee that anyone wishing to write a "Standard"
application using floating-point will have to write everything twice.  Then,
of course, at the beginning of your standard program you can test the
environment and decide which copy of the application to run.  (I invite
counter-examples.)

BTW, what's this ENVIRONMENT? thing which takes a string argument? (Where's my
BASIS document?)  I'm reluctant to comment until I see its ANS definition, but
it sure seems like someone is taking immense pains to do things the hard way. 
(Isn't parsing strings what we have a dictionary for?)

Better a bad decision than no decision at all, guys.

- Brad


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