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Subject: ANS FORTH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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Date: 30 Jan 91 12:14:26 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 01-27-91 (22:36)              Number: 1001 of 1007 (Echo)
   To: DENNIS RUFFER                 Refer#: 979
 From: RAY DUNCAN                      Read: NO
 Subj: ANS FORTH TECHNICAL COMMI     Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

    Elizabeth Rather writes:

    >I believe that this form [ >COLROW ] is from LMI Forth...

 The name didn't come from us.  In LMI systems its called GOTOXY and the
 stack effect is ( x y - ).  I don't really have any strong preference
 about what X3J14 chooses to do with this as it is only a mechanical
 editing problem anyway to change the code.

 As for the X3J14 current string words, I'd like to see them thrown out
 too.  I believe that the set of string primitives in LMI systems is much
 better thought out and I'd hate to abandon same in favor of the
 hodge-podge that is now in BASIS.

 We strongly support the proposals to delete ONLY/ALSO (I proposed this
 myself some time back, but my proposal was voted down).

 NET/Mail : LMI Forth Board, Los Angeles, CA (213) 306-3530
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