2020 Forth Standards Meeting

1-3 Sept 2020, Online

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Schedule

The standards meeting will be Monday-Thursday from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm CEST with a short bio-break at 4:30. An alternative would be to do Tuesday to Thursday and Sunday afternoon. The latter solution fits with at least one committee member who doesn't do Mondays!

Participants

Review of Procedures

1. Covid consequences
2. Brexit consequences
3. Payment for services/licences

Reports

1. Chair
2. Editor
3. Technical
4. Treasurer

Review of Proposals and Activities

1. Recognisers
   Stay as experimental proposal?
   Separate POSTPONE action?
   Impact of dot parser on POSTPONE?

2. Multi-tasking from APH

3. Ambiguous condition and IMMEDIATE
   TC answer by Bernd, 2019-09-12 15:19:24
   Move from RUV, any further action?

4. CS-DROP from UH
   say orig and dest must be same size
   Go to vote?

5. Case insensitivity
   ASCII case insensitivity only.
   Go to vote?

6. Remove the “rules of FIND” (BP)
   Locals word set?
   Go to vote?

7. Reference implementation of SYNONYM (AE, RUV)
   Broken reference implementation.
   New reference implementation.

8. VOCABULARY (UH)

9. Unfindable definitions (RUV)

10. Case sensitivity in [IF] and friends.

11. FIND

12. FIND-NAME

13. License (JK, RUV)

14. String, EPLACES (RUV)
    Error if macro does not exist during compilation?

15. Why RECURSE is needed (BI) Pick a TC answer.

16. Input values other than true and false [IF]
    Pick flag as z/nz, vote, TC response

17. sample implementation that can also be interpreted (MAX)
    Adopt RUV's response as TC answer.

18. Better wording for Colon (RUV)

19. NAME>INTERPRET wording (RUV)

20. The parts of execution semantics and the calling definition (RUV)

21. Recognizer RfD rephrase 2020 (UH)
    Move to recogniser workshop

22. "(" typo in a testcase (RUV)
    Assign to editor

23. Wording: declare undefined interpretation semantics for locals (RUV)
    Remove ambiguous conditions

24. Word set of S>D word (RUV) Leave as is?

25. Same name token for different words (RUV)

26. Recognizer for locals (RUV)

27. There is error in testing SM/REM (MB)
    Pass to editor

28. Defer Implementation (Tolich)

29. Recogniser (BP)
    Move to recogniser workshop.

30. Does wording imply that if you SYNONYM a word with the same name (JN)

31. What happens when parse reaches the end of the parse area? (JN)

32. TEST instead of TEAT in F.1 para 2 (JN)
    Pass to editor

Workshop Topics

Workshops are topics for discussion outside the formal meeting.

1. Future Document Format

2. Stack comments
   stack comments should be parseable
   Stack naming S: D: F: N: R:
   stack effect notation
   stack effect conventions

3. Test suites
   Philosophy
   J Hayes sequencing
   G Jackson suite

4. Workshop reports

Consideration of proposals + CfV votes

Matters arising

Any other business

Date of next meeting