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

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".

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

Perhaps it's been updated since as the SwiftForth file I have has:

: DECIMAL ( -- )   $0A BASE ! ;

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!

Really annoying was LMI which on error switched to DECIMAL ...