Re: Words in Gforth manual undefined

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

David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> writes:

The only thing that still mystifies me is why a seemingly basic word
like u/ wasn't added until so recently.

>
The standard has UM/MOD (and that has been in Gforth from the start)
if / does not satisfy your needs.
>
Actually IIRC we did not add U/ because of user demand, but mainly
because of implementation (speed of U/ vs UM/MOD on various CPUs) and
completeness considerations.

I see I should have read Starting Forth more carefully.

Thanks for the background on U/.

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David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
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