Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM (06/13/91)
> Hmmm... reading Robert Berkey's comments, I'm beginning to believe that > _all_ existing Forth code will be rendered nonconforming by the BASIS. In a sense, this is correct. However, I think a better way to look at it is as follows: ANS Forth will not magically make existing code portable. Existing code will most likely continue to run on the same systems that it currently runs on. Existing code that assumes arbitrary alignment is current not portable to implementations that do not choose to "hide" hardware alignment restrictions (a significant percentage of Forth implementations for such hardware). Mitch.Bradley@Eng.Sun.COM