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 (most recent first)

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

in float

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2019-03-03 06:20:52
Case sensitivity

in usage

State: New

Versions:

V0: 2018-11-03 13:15:53
Revised Proposal Process

in process

State: New

Versions:

V0: 2018-09-21 06:49:42
Multi-Tasking Proposal

in facility, MS

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2018-09-06 17:19:38

V1: 2018-09-12 10:04:26
CS-DROP (revised 2018-08-20)

in tools, CS-PICK

State: New

Versions:

V0: 2018-08-20 20:22:25
S( "Request for Discussion" (revised 2018-08-16)

in file, Sq

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2018-08-17 16:27:53
Let us adopt the Gerry Jackson test suite as part of Forth 200x

in testsuite

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2018-07-10 14:38:46
Tighten the specification of SYNONYM (version 1)

in tools, SYNONYM

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2018-06-08 10:09:18
find-name

in core, FIND

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2018-05-25 12:26:23

V1: 2018-08-15 10:38:39
Clarify FIND

in core, FIND

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2018-05-23 17:04:29

V1: 2018-05-29 11:28:32

V2: 2018-06-17 13:28:27
EXCEPTION LOCALs

in exception, THROW

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2017-10-28 07:04:49
BL rationale is wrong

in core, BL

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2017-10-25 11:35:46
The value of STATE should be restored

in exception, THROW

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2017-09-03 11:07:49
Core-ext S\" should reference File-ext S\"

in core, Seq

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2017-04-16 08:03:17
Implementations requiring BOTH 32 bit single floats and 64 bit double floats.

in float

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2016-12-21 14:39:40
Directory experiemental proposal

in file

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2016-12-12 15:42:57

V1: 2016-12-13 11:09:34
DEFER this not :-)

in core, DEFER

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2016-09-02 16:14:36
WLSCOPE -- wordlists switching made easier

in search

State: Discussion

Versions:

V0: 2016-06-18 04:19:03

Proposals

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Proposals (most recent first)

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

in float

Versions:

Case sensitivity

in usage

Versions:

Revised Proposal Process

in process

Versions:

Multi-Tasking Proposal

in facility, MS

Versions:

CS-DROP (revised 2018-08-20)

in tools, CS-PICK

Versions:

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

in file, Sq

Versions:

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

in testsuite

Versions:

Tighten the specification of SYNONYM (version 1)

in tools, SYNONYM

Versions:

find-name

in core, FIND

Versions:

Clarify FIND

in core, FIND

Versions:

EXCEPTION LOCALs

in exception, THROW

Versions:

BL rationale is wrong

in core, BL

Versions:

The value of STATE should be restored

in exception, THROW

Versions:

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

in core, Seq

Versions:

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

in float

Versions:

Directory experiemental proposal

in file

Versions:

DEFER this not :-)

in core, DEFER

Versions:

WLSCOPE -- wordlists switching made easier

in search

Versions: