Proposals

The main portion of proposals and committee work is on our sister-site http://www.forth200x.org.

2018 we enabled the discussion of proposals directly on forth-standard.org .
See list of proposals discussed on forth-standard.org below:

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Proposals

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Proposals (most recent first)

Executing compilation semantics

in doc

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Revise Rationale of Buffer:

in core, BUFFERColon

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F>R and FR> to support dynamically-scoped floating point variables

in float

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Case sensitivity

in usage

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Revised Proposal Process

in process

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Multi-Tasking Proposal

in facility, MS

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CS-DROP (revised 2018-08-20)

in tools, CS-PICK

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S( "Request for Discussion" (revised 2018-08-16)

in file, Sq

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Let us adopt the Gerry Jackson test suite as part of Forth 200x

in testsuite

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Tighten the specification of SYNONYM (version 1)

in tools, SYNONYM

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find-name

in core, FIND

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Clarify FIND

in core, FIND

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EXCEPTION LOCALs

in exception, THROW

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BL rationale is wrong

in core, BL

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The value of STATE should be restored

in exception, THROW

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Core-ext S\" should reference File-ext S\"

in core, Seq

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Implementations requiring BOTH 32 bit single floats and 64 bit double floats.

in float

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Directory experiemental proposal

in file

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DEFER this not :-)

in core, DEFER

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WLSCOPE -- wordlists switching made easier

in search

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