Re: portable or not? Volatile strings

On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 9:01:48 +0000, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

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Okay let's say it out loud. Classic Forth is not fit for handling
strings.

I don't agree. Classic Forth is perfectly fit for handling strings.
It just needs some user-defined words added. The longer such words
are not standardized, the better the final result will probably be.

A denotation that generates a constant string "blablabla" that has
a status as a number is long overdue.

Which illustrates my point. Having a built-in string type denoted
by quotes might be a good thing. It is hard to find a argument
against that when numbers are already a comparable exception that
nobody has found a way to get rid of. And maybe we can then even
tick strings and numbers like everything else?
-marcel