In article <2025Jul6.133027@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,   
   Anton Ertl  wrote:   
      
   >Skip Carter did not post in this thread, but given that he proposed   
   >the change, he probably found 6 to be too few; or maybe it was just a   
   >phenomenon that we also see elsewhere as range anxiety.  In any case,   
   >he made no such proposal to Forth-200x, so apparently the need was not   
   >pressing.   
      
   Note that the vast experience Wagner has, trumps the anxiety others   
   may or may not have.   
      
      
   >In any case, in almost all cases I use the default FP pack, and here   
   >the VFX-5 and SwiftForth-4 approach is unbeatable in simplicity.   
   >Instead of performing the sequence of commands shown above, I just   
   >start the Forth system, and FP words are ready.   
      
   And even   
       WANT -fp-   
   is not much of a hassle in ciforth.   
      
      
      
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   >- anton   
      
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