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Subject: What should the Standard include?
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Date: 16 Apr 91 02:14:58 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 30
Message 40        Sun Apr 14, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 17:27 EDT
 
Well, I would hardly claim to be a spokesman for the "minimalist" camp --
indeed, most of us who have been branded "minimalists" don't even accept that
dichotomy.  I, for instance, accept floating-point and files....does that make
me a minimalist?  I'm quite happy with DEFER, as it meets my personal criteria
for a standard word.  (Which reminds me, I was supposed to post those here. 
Later.)

I am, however, sympathetic to the arguments a) DEFER can be portably defined
in ANS Forth, so it's not essential in the Standard, and b) DEFER shouldn't be
in the CORE wordset.  As one of the people who is _not_ programming Forth on
32-bit monsters, I am very sensitive to the size of both the core and
extension wordsets.

- Brad
 Brad Rodriguez        | brad%candice@maccs.uucp      (God willing)
 B.RODRIGUEZ2 on GEnie | brad%candice@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
                      | bradford@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca  (archaic)
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