Re: Why dial-a-standard is not a thing in Forth

dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> writes:

Perhaps it's been updated since as the SwiftForth file I have has:
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: DECIMAL ( -- )   $0A BASE ! ;

Interesting: SwiftForth 3.10.4, 3.11.0, and 4.0.0-RC52 contain

: DECIMAL ( -- )   $0A BASE ! ;

while SwiftForth 4.0.0-RC87 and 4.0.0-RC89 contain

: DECIMAL ( -- )   10 BASE ! ;

Gforth has the worst of both worlds:

: decimal ( -- ) \ core
    \G Set @code{base} to &10 (decimal).  Don't use @code{decimal}, use
    \G @code{base-execute} instead.
    a base ! ;

- anton
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