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Subject: ANS FORTH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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Date: 29 Nov 90 13:00:44 GMT
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Category 10,  Topic 2
Message 256       Thu Nov 29, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 00:51 EST
 
FAX to: Elizabeth Rather

From:   John Rible

Here's what I passed out at No. Calf Forth Day & @ FORML.

Send it anywhere you want.

        John

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Summary of BASIS 14 Changes (John Rible's unofficial report)

Added Words:
 To Core ext; CASE OF ENDOF ENDCASE REFILL COMPILE C" MS MARKER
 To File; SAVE-INPUT RESTORE-INPUT FILE-STATUS WRITE-LINE RESIZE-FILE
REPOSITION-FILE
 To File ext; FLUSH-FILE
 To Float ext; F"
 To Double; D0<
 To Programmer; BYE KEY?

Deleted Words:
 From File; WRITE-CR SEEK-FILE
 From File ext; EXTEND-FILE
 From Non-portable; ?KEY ?EKEY

Renamed, Redefined, or Moved Words:
 BL from Core ext to Core
 " renamed S" in Core and Programmer
 -TRAILING from Core ext to String
 QUERY restored to traditional meaning in Core ext
 .( 0> from Core to Core ext
 PARSE redefined so address is in the input stream, moved from Core to Core
ext
 LIST from Non-portable to Block
 ONLY ALSO PREVIOUS ISOLATE from Search to Search ext
 ORDER from Non-portable to Search ext
 [COMPILE] made "non-obsolescent" in Core ext
 FILEPOS is FILE-POSITION and FILESIZE is FILE-SIZE in File
 BLOCK-FILE is FILE-BLOCK and BUFFER-FILE is FILE-BUFFER in File ext
 RENAME-FILE from File to File ext

Other Changes:
 Non-portable word set renamed "Programmers toolkit" word set
 Cell and Floating-point number sizes are intregal multiples of character size
 Nested compilation of definitions is disallowed
 Beyond scope of Standard to specify termination condition of ACCEPT or EXPECT
 Only graphic characters (from ISO-IRV, ASCII) from 32...126 within scope of
standard
 "Error" codes -1...-255 reserved fro ANSI, -256...-4095 for system
 New data type taxonomy permits address, character, and other mixed type
arithmetic
 Much new text added for rationale and implementor's guide apendices
 Many typos and format problems corrected

Some statistics:
 958 proposals received (194 from outside the committee, 1/3rd of which
passed)
 518 proposals passed (246 were amended)
 18 proposals still pending
 estimated over $300,000 direct expenditures, plus over $500,000 volunteer
time

DRAFT PROPOSED ANSI FORTH STANDARD EXPECTED AFTER NEXT MEETING

The next meeting is scheduled for Jan 29 - Feb 3 at Forth, Inc.  For more
information, please contact:

        Elizabeth Rather, X3J14 Chair
        111 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 300
        Manhattan Beach, CA  90266

We are expecting to have BASIS 14 ready for release by December 10th.


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