Re: [Amforth-devel] Deferred number?

[Matthias T. <mt...@we...>]

> 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
>
>... or to allow entering double precision numbers.

That may be added into the main-stream code base sometimes. Feel
free to send a patch ;=) But note, that the number conversion in
amforth is only good enough and not fully standard compatible...

> 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.

Ahh. There are ongoing standardization tasks running with the
forth2000x folks on this topic, and I remender a (short) discussion
in the usenet (clf) this year around this topic too. We'll see, what will
happen.

bye
Matthias