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[craig b. <dab...@ya...>]

IMHO: as an old guard FORTH acquaintance,  besides being defined in the language spec, BASE is amusing to have available to play with.  I routinely use words to print that chamge to a specific base and return the system to previous condition.  I think assembler in hex and data in decimal. Binary is occasionally usefull with ports, and even octal is handy on occasion...  Then something plays a Tom Leaher song that's got base 7 or you want to lead sonething in with a count of seventeen...

Point is, if you prevent everyone from doing something stupid, you prevent someone else from doing something extremely clever...  Don't let seatbelts become straight-jackets.


craig bair

 
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