Re: [Amforth-devel] amforth - how to make him case insensitive

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

Pito,


> when you do insist on case sensitivness than do make the forth words
> uppercase...

Why do you think I insist on case sensitivness? Case sensitivness
is simpler to implement (take it as an axiom if you do not believe
it). Its very easy do write a converter in any language on the PC 
side, even windows VBS can do that:

Dim upper as String = "converted from lowercase" 
Console.WriteLine(upper.ToUpper())
    Console.WriteLine(UCase(upper))
    Console.WriteLine(StrConv(upper,VbStrConv.UpperCase))

not to mention the many unix tools like tr...

> Who actually needs case sensitive forth?? 

I do and will do so for the next few months, at least.

> PS: It is interesting how the creators of such
> nice sw implementations do insist on something, which an average
> user does not understand.. I've tried FlashForth recently (have a
> look on it - a lot of ineresting features you may utilise), however
> the creator does insist on FOR NEXT instead of DO LOOP. Frankly, I
> do not understand that..

Thats life. And FF is interesting, indeed.


Matthias

PS: If _you_ insist on case insensitivness, feel free to send a 
patch, that I can consider to include into amforth. Thats the way Open
Source Software works and thats the reason why I share amforth with 
other people