In article <2024Aug5.171800@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,   
   Anton Ertl  wrote:   
   >mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes:   
   >>On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 12:26:26 +0000, dxf wrote:   
   >>> Don't know but to this day Mitch Bradley (ANS, Open Firmware) still uses   
   >>> parsing words to interpret hex, double, float numbers.   
   >>   
   >>"de gustibus non disputandum est."   
   >>   
   >>> He also uses state-smart words.   
   >>   
   >>Show me a Forther *without* strong opinions *and* unfathomable   
   >>inconsistencies.   
   >   
   >In this case it's actually consistent: Mitch Bradley finds the   
   >pitfalls of STATE-smart words acceptable, so he uses such words to   
   >deal with various literals.   
   >   
   >I, OTOH, don't consider them to be acceptable, so I prefer   
   >recognizers, like the standard already has for words, single and   
   >double integer numbers, and FP numbers.   
      
   Actually there is not much difference between   
     DX ABCD   
   and   
     0x ABCD   
   and   
     0xABCD   
   or   
     $ABCD   
      
   As long as you make 0x/$  a PREFIX and recognize that   
   it is inevitable that numbers are state-smart.   
   Making the expression into a single word solves much.   
   The whole recognizer thing becomes superfluous at the expense   
   of 5 words in INTERPRET.   
      
   >- anton   
      
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