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

On 21/04/2025 6:34 am, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

In article <757e2ced7a6ff4b73d9fa4531d29ff611dc72e10@i2pn2.org>,
dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:

On 20/04/2025 6:18 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:

: DECIMAL ( -- )   10 BASE ! ;
does not contain an invocation of DECIMAL before this use of "10".

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: DECIMAL ( -- ) 5 5 + BASE ! ;
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should usually work.

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Perhaps it's been updated since as the SwiftForth file I have has:
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: DECIMAL ( -- )   $0A BASE ! ;
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Closest thing to a BASE issue I've encountered was invoking the
screen editor while in HEX.  After doing that a few times I fixed
the editor!
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Really annoying was LMI which on error switched to DECIMAL ...

 
They had it half right. All error numbers should be printed in
decimal. First aid read the paragraphs in de documentation
pertaining to this error.

I notice I did that for THROW numbers that don't have a message - after
which it reverts to the current BASE.  I should document that somewhere...