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  • Re: QUIT and ABORT

    From Gerry Jackson@do-not-use@swldwa.uk to comp.lang.forth on Wed Jun 11 07:33:28 2025
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    On 24/05/2025 16:12, Anton Ertl wrote:
    There is a test suite (maintained by Gerry Jackson) that tests a
    system for standards conformance, but as Dijkstra said, tests can only
    prove the presence of bugs, not their absence.

    I lack the time and interest to carry on maintaining the test suite and,
    as I reported to the Forth 200X committee last September, would like to
    pass it on to someone else. As the committee has failed to identify
    anybody are there any voluteers? I presume it would need committee approval.

    Funnily enough it seems to be the most popular Forth software I've ever written, currrently 76 stars and 16 forks. There must be a lot of Forths
    out there!
    --
    Gerry
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  • From anton@anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) to comp.lang.forth on Thu Jun 12 09:38:44 2025
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    Gerry Jackson <do-not-use@swldwa.uk> writes:
    On 24/05/2025 16:12, Anton Ertl wrote:
    There is a test suite (maintained by Gerry Jackson) that tests a
    system for standards conformance, but as Dijkstra said, tests can only
    prove the presence of bugs, not their absence.

    I lack the time and interest to carry on maintaining the test suite and,
    as I reported to the Forth 200X committee last September, would like to
    pass it on to someone else. As the committee has failed to identify
    anybody are there any voluteers? I presume it would need committee approval.

    My notes from the September meeting say:

    * How can we better support a Forth-200x Standard Test Suite?
    (hand over form Gerry Jackson to a new maintainer)

    We github-fork Gerry Jackson's test suite in the Committee
    account (Action: GW)

    Reorganize the test suite such that it can be split into the
    parts relevant for a word's glossary entry (Action: PK, GW)

    Anyway, AFAIK nothing has been done yet. In any case, thank you for maintaining the test suite for so many years.

    - anton
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