# 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?

## Next meeting

2026-06-26 14UTC