Re: Split a string and characters

Dear all,

Sadly enough for Hendursaga's request, FORTH already does this with the 
interpreter, and IMO should have done it, for decades, with an open, 
clear generic state machine that reacts to incoming characters in case 
it is treating an incoming file, so that any user has the ability to 
patch and arrange it for its own purpose, in the FOTH spririt.

For obscure reasons this was never done, and kept bundled in the sealed 
set of words the interpreter/compiler uses, making the whole stuff the 
grey box in a system claiming to be transparent. It makes it 
unnecessarily complex to port FORTH to any new target. About the same 
burden as missing the half-dozen words in a PC to plot a pixel in some 
graphic pixel, the greatest lack in Forth.

To remain compliant with say, ANS, traditional inner loop words would 
then be coded as pointers to the generic file parsing, FSM mode...

With hope,

Paul

Le 2022-12-04 21:50, Hendursaga a écrit :

> Bernd Paysan <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> The Gforth manual on gforth.org is the upcoming Gforth 1.0 manual, so 
>> it contains features that weren't available in Gforth 0.7.3, or only 
>> available as loadable files.
> 
> Oh wow, you're about to cut a release? I can't wait! :-)
> 
> I'll see if I can get that packaged into GNU Guix then..
> 
> ~ Hendursaga