Re: [Amforth-devel] Deferred number?

[Tom H. <cel...@gm...>]

Matthias,

Thanks for the personal reply.

> emit/key and friends are deferred since they should easily
> re-targettable from the serial to say can or I2C. For number
> there was so such scenario. Why do you want to behave number
> differently? A solution could be to CATCH conversion errors,
> since number THROWs on them

One reason would be to allow the entering of different number bases
whatever BASE is set to, or to allow entering double precision
numbers.

Of course I am only playing, but when I used Forth as a sort of
super-monitor on an embedded system controlling a lathe I did this to
allow me to enter hex as $abcd whilst keeping BASE set to 10.

Regards

Tom Harris <cel...@gm...>