FORTH-79's reference .R right-justifies the number in its field and
prints nothing after it; v3 printed a space. . U. and D. still print
their one space.
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One case per byte position, like C!: the cell is shifted down with a
2/ loop and masked. It replaces the version built on LSHIFT, RSHIFT
and SWAP calls. C@ now leaves its caller 7 return entries (was 4), and
the words above it gain with it: TYPE 6 (was 3), DUMP 4, Q.PRINT, U.
and U.R 3 (were 2). The signed number words stay at 2: their sign
waits on the return stack.
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The number-printing words, on pictured output and TYPE, executed on the
golden model at both cell widths against a C reference (ten bases,
eleven field widths) and six recorded transcripts of the v3 binary.
Each plain word is its .R word with a width of 0; all six share one
tail. The field width waits in a variable, (W), so the picture runs no
deeper than it does on its own: each word leaves its caller 4 data
cells and 2 return entries.
As v3, the .R words print a trailing space. Unlike v3, D. takes
( lo hi ), prints the whole double, and printing honours BASE.
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