Sujet : Re: FP number syntax
De : dxforth (at) *nospam* gmail.com (dxf)
Groupes : comp.lang.forthDate : 27. Dec 2024, 00:49:47
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On 27/12/2024 6:08 am, minforth wrote:
Number conversions in Forth are shock full of
old ballast, justified by legacy code concerns.
Maybe it would be easier to get rid of such stuff
(e.g. exotic formats in >FLOAT) and just define
a new Legacy-Code Wordset.
AFAIR the 'exotic formats' in >FLOAT were nothing special.
Excluding them could well result in more code which would
be a perverse outcome.