Wake up AmForth-ers :-)
As on all modern hosts it is easy to produce UTF-8 characters wouldn't
it be nice to be able to write something like this:
\ ( X1 X2 .. Xn n -- Sigma )
: Σ 0 swap 0 do + loop ;
Interestingly AmForth compiles the above successfully yet it cannot find
these UTF-8 character-strings in its dictionary:
|C| 6|\ ( X1 X2 .. Xn n -- sum )
|S| 7|: Σ 0 swap 0 do + loop ;
|W| 8|
|S| 9|10 20 30 3 Σ .
|E=Σ ?? -13 13
> words
Σ ->test ...
Think how nice would be our programs' new look.
☹ (frowning face) throwing some exception
⚑⚐ (black- white- flags) meet the new "false" "true" symbols.
By the way, forth-rc1 does not prohibit such ideas. It writes:
3.1.2.1 "The graphic forms of characters outside the hex range {20
... 7E} are implementation defined."
Comments?
Regards, Enoch.
P/S I'm sure that Chuck Moore, Forth inventor, wouldn't mind. He'd
already gone into color-Forth :-)
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