Proposal: BL rationale is wrong
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AntonErtl
BL rationale is wrongProposal2017-10-25 11:35:46
Both Forth-2012 and Forth-94 specify ASCII as character encoding, so we know that the value of BL is #32 (or $20). The rationale claims that BL is the only way to get this value, but it is wrong.
BerndPaysan
Indeed, so we could move BL to core ext to make it optional.
There's no need for a size constrained system to contain a word that's trivially replaced by a literal with known value.
ruv
Yet another way to find the system value of "space" is : _BL ( -- c ) S" " DROP C@ ;