Multi-Tasking (was: Back & Forth - Co-routines)

minforth@gmx.net (minforth) writes:

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:17:31 +0000, Paul Rubin wrote:
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minforth@gmx.net (minforth) writes:

Unfortunately, everything is very non-standard, as there is
no multitasking wordset (for historical reasons?).
A pity really, as co-operative multitasking existed very
early on in Forth.

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I had thought there wasn't enough agreement about the wordset to
standardize it

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Likely dead or too little support:
https://forth-standard.org/proposals/multi-tasking-proposal

The proposal has not proceeded to the point that there would be
disagreement.  Overall there seems to be a lot of commonality between
systems, and standardization seems possible.  It's just that there
needs to be someone who makes a proposal.  Andrew Haley started a
proposal, but then there was not much progress and eventually he
dropped out.  Bernd Paysan was then asked to continue, but has not
done anything yet.  The main focus of his standards work at the moment
is recognizers, and we all have other things to do, too.

- anton
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