2026-05-22 meeting on recognizers

Attendance

M. Anton Ertl
Bernd Paysan
Gerald Wodni
Ruv
Ulli Hoffmann

Recognizers

Should it be a setter and getter of rec-forth?

This would avoid a circular dependency in an implementation. This could be solved by using, e.g., DEFER! instead of IS.

Naming of the default contents of `rec-forth`?

Should the name be standardized in order to make it easy to reproduce the initial recognizer sequence. The reference implementation uses REC-DEFAULT.

Problem: This is a recognizer sequence that can be changed; it may contain deferred words that can be changed. So when you plug it back into rec-forth what you get may not be what you expect.

OTOH, that’s similar to only forth: There may be additional words defined in the wordsets, so what you get there may be different from what you expect.

Another problem for the idea of using this as a life net is: If there is ever a point when you actually want to use this, can you still recognize enough words to make use of this life net?

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