Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM!wmb From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Conditional compilation Message-ID: <9103050029.AA14593@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 4 Mar 91 20:57:16 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Mitch Bradley Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 > Is it the policy of the TC to put stuff in at the last minute so as > to avoid discussion. No, it just happened that nobody bothered to propose them until the last meeting. As a group, the TC is definitely not trying to "railroad" this. Evidence: at least 2 TC members have voted against the proposal in the letter ballot, and their reasons for voting no were both "too late, insufficient discussion". Personally, I am confident that these words are well-understood and important (based on their existence in numerous systems for many years). > BTW, since I haven't seen this proposal: > 1. are these words nestable? > 2. can these words range across multiple screens linked with --> ? > 3. can these be used both in compile and interpret "state"? Yes on all counts. Mitch