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

On 24/04/2025 12:22 am, sjack wrote:

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Added bonus, the original LIST set the BASE back to decimal.

I'd forgotten FigForth had that.  Standard Forth doesn't say
either way.  At worst not changing BASE only affects display of
line numbers (serving as a reminder of what BASE you're in!)

More often than not I'm using L (aka SCR @ LIST) to see where
the error was, or EDIT without a parameter for the same reason.
Similarly 1 LOAD (what I do 99% of the time) always works.
I've often thought of defining GO to do just that.