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From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: ANS Forth strings
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Date: 14 Feb 91 22:22:26 GMT
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Personally, I think the ANS Forth string issue is a lost cause.
I can't seem to find 2 Forth programmers anywhere who agree on what
makes a good string wordset, and I think there are at least as many
opinions on this in the committee as there are committee members.

I have given up hope on this issue.  Regarding strings, the committee
is truly representative of the Forth community; there is not even a hint
of a consensus.

This is one of those issues that should have been solved by fiat about
15 years ago, when one person still pretty much "owned" the language.

Mitch Bradley, wmb@Eng.Sun.COM