Re: Small, understandable Forth

Bruce McFarling <agila61@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
The one proposed but not yet accepted in the Forth200x process is:
"(2) Relative subdirectory support that works when a file is being
INCLUDED."

That's pretty much stalled. There is significant resistance to that
and not that much support.

The two that I've dropped from the list are:

"(5) REQUIRE ... because the library oversight system needs to know
precisely what semantics can be expected of this word.

REQUIRE is in Forth200x: http://www.forth200x.org/required.html

Do you mean to say that the semantics are not defined sufficiently?
If so, what is lacking?

- anton
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