Re: Parsing timestamps?

On 03-07-2025 10:43, Anton Ertl wrote:

Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> writes:

1. Adding general locals is trivial. It takes just one single line of
Forth. Sure, you don't got the badly designed and much too heavy
Forth-2012 implementation,

 There is no Forth-2012 implementation of locals.  The proposal
includes a referece implementation, but that is based on a
non-standard word BUILDLV and is therefore not included in
<http://www.forth200x.org/reference-implementations/>;

Okay - technically you are right. That's the beauty of Forth - there are so many standards, there is always one that fits your taste. But none the less, this site *DOES* contain another, somewhat shorter implementation:
https://forth-standard.org/standard/locals

instead, you
find there two implementations written in Forth-94:
 http://www.forth200x.org/reference-implementations/locals.fs
http://www.forth200x.org/reference-implementations/extended-locals.fs
 Of these two the locals.fs implementation is the shorter and nicer
one.  You can read about these two implementations in
<2021Mar3.171350@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>.

The smaller one is *TWO* screens - and is dependent on the LOCALS wordset. I don't consider that "short". But everyone has his own standards. My "short" is a screen.

However, looking at
<https://forth-standard.org/standard/locals/bColon>, it seems that the
editor included a variation of extensed-locals.fs.
 

4tH v3.64.2 will even support a *MUCH* lighter, but
fully conformant Forth-2012 LOCALS implementation.

 Great!  How good that Forth-2012 is not an implementation standard.

I beg to differ, but that's another discussion. I don't intend to use it, though. It's just there to make a point.

If anything, yours is a prime
example of a "sour grape argument".

 Which grapes do you suppose that I am unable to reach?

I'm a lot of things, but not a mind reader. I'm not even trying. If you'd like to project the image of the mysterious and elusive "3rd man", be my guest.
I'm more the kind of guy who says what he means and who means what he says.
Hans Bezemer