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Subject: ANS TC Magnet for Tick, >BODY, ['],etc
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Date: 30 Jun 91 20:12:17 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 25
Message 37        Sun Jun 30, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 12:12 EDT
 
>> Hmmm... reading Robert Berkey's comments, I'm beginning to believe
 >> that _all_ existing Forth code will be rendered nonconforming by
 >> the BASIS.

> In a sense, this is correct. ...
 > ANS Forth will not magically make existing code portable.

True.  But I wasn't saying that ANS Forth would make existing code _portable_
(most of it isn't); I was pointing out that it would make existing code _non-
standard_ (even if it happens to be portable).

- Brad
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