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From: ns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Nick Solntseff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: What is a Standard
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Date: 29 Jan 91 17:15:28 GMT
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In article <9101282232.AA20011@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UNBCIC%BRFAPESP.BITNET@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV writes:
>
>I think that something standard is something that is used in the "same way" by
>all the people that use this thing.
>
>Daniel C. Sobral
>UNBCIC@BRFAPESP.BITNET

A better term for the above would be "conventional."  Anything that is used
in "the same way" by all people by agreement is used in "a conventional
manner" or "by convention."

A "standard" implies much more than this.  If you build a house, and the
electrical wiring does not meet the standard code of wiring practice, the
installer can be jailed, or at the very least have his license to practice
revoked.

We do we Forthers want our standard to be placed in this interval?

Nicholas Solntseff