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From: S47852EF@ETSUACAD.BITNET (Frank Earl)
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Subject: Re: ANS Forth
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Date: 7 Apr 91 01:12:42 GMT
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On Fri, 5 Apr 91 09:01:11 PST Mitch Bradley said:
>> Is there DEFER in BASIS 15.
>
>No.  I proposed it at the last meeting, but the proposal was defeated 3-8.
>

Mitch, how does the standards team propose to handle vectored execution
and forward compilation in a clean and easy manner, while also doing it in a
standard manner?    (Read:  This *WILL* be a portion of my comments to the TC)

DEFER is one of those words that is nice in that, yes you may be able to
portably define it using standard words ( like ' : <deferred-word> ; ')
but is cleaner and easier to follow if it's made it's own class of word like
F-PC has...    (At least I think it's important...  :)


Frank