Forth-200x interim Meeting 2024-02-16T15:00Z

Welcome / Participants

Alex McDonald
Anton Ertl
Brad Rodriguez
Gerald Wodni
Krishna Myneni
Leon Wagner
Ruvim
Stephen Pelc
Ulrich Hoffmann

Agreement on the agenda

Do we have any additional points to discuss?

Review of Procedures

Review of new Proposals (since the September’23 meeting in Rome, 2023-09-13/14/15)

[314] Appendix F doesn’t cater for strings. (appendix-f-doesn-t-cater-for-strings- #314)

2023-11-12 13:26:28 - albert

Ask him to volunteer tests (Action: UH)

[313] String store and fetch (string-store-and-fetch #313)

2023-11-12 13:12:55 - albert

Write an answer containing the criticisms (in particular, buffer overflow safety). If he wants to go on with a proposal, it needs to be more in standard terminology and with standard stack effect comments. Alternatively, add a package to theforth.net (Action: UH)

[311] New words: latest-name and latest-name-in (new-words-latest-name-and-latest-name-in #311)

2023-10-23 01:13:22 - ruv

Discussion. Do we need LATEST-NAME-IN? Make it formal. (Action: ruv)

[307] Fix stack comments for N>R and NR> (fix-stack-comments-for-n-r-and-nr- #307)

2023-09-13 12:09:40 - LeonWagner

Fix the n that’s there (should be +n), then make it formal (Done: AE)

Review of new Contributions (since the September’23 meeting in Rome, 2023-09-13/14/15)

[317] CfVs after committee decision (#317)

2023-12-02 10:43:31 - AntonErtl

Do an issue on github (Done: AE)

[316] Proposals and the document (#316)

2023-12-01 18:08:40 - AntonErtl

Do an issue on github (Done: AE)

[315] WORD and the text interpreter (core, WORD #315)

2023-11-27 18:02:20 - AntonErtl

Discussion does not indicate a preference for changing the standard.

Still, Ruvim wants to do a proposal. (Action: ruv)

Alternatively, make WORD obsolescent. (Action: SP)

[312] TRAVERSE-WORDLIST must not expose the current definition (tools, TRAVERSE-WORDLIST #312)

2023-10-23 10:04:08 - ruv

Acceptingly close it. Write an issue on github to allow that workflow. (Action: ruv).

[310] Why do we use +n and not u in the stack diagram for n>r and nr> (fix-stack-comments-for-n-r-and-nr- #310)

2023-09-23 01:06:43 - ruv

Look at +n vs. u in other words. (Action: ruv)

[309] A better approach for SYNONYM wording (tighten-the-specification-of-synonym-version-1- #309)

2023-09-22 17:06:27 - ruv

Make another proposal based on discussions about this proposal (Action: ruv)

How do we proceed with the standardization effort?

What can we improve?
What are our mid term plans?
A Forth 2022/2023 snapshot?

Date of next meeting (5 min)EuroForth-2024?

Another Interim Meeting on 2024-05-24T14:00Z

On that meeting, start contributions with contribution 318 (contributions also include proposals).

Euroforth ideally September 27-29 (Forth200x Sep 25-27)