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Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct?

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct?
Date 2012-08-10 15:39 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2012Aug10.173956@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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Percy <percival.andrews@gmail.com> writes:
>> : constant ( x "name" -- )
>> 
>>   >r : r> postpone literal postpone ; ;
>
>Does this also do it...?
>
>: constant ( x "name" --)
>postpone : postpone literal postpone ; ;

No.  That CONSTANT would not be a defining word, it would just be a
code generating word; and it would not make much sense.

- anton
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Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-08-03 16:23 -0400
  Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-03 13:49 -0700
  Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-03 23:07 +0200
    Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-08-03 18:28 -0400
      Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-04 02:49 +0200
        Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-08-04 04:33 -0400
          Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-04 04:37 -0500
  Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-06 21:27 -0700
    Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-07 00:04 -0700
    Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-08-07 05:05 -0400
      Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-07 14:18 +0000
        Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-07 09:39 -0700
          Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-07 20:20 +0200
            Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-07 12:31 -0700
              Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-07 13:26 -0700
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-08 00:49 +0200
            Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-07 12:33 -0700
          Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-08 07:21 +0000
          Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-08 01:12 -0700
            Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-08 19:11 +0200
        Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-07 19:29 -0700
        Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2012-08-07 22:01 -0500
          Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-07 20:07 -0700
            Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2012-08-07 23:03 -0500
          Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-08 07:42 +0000
            Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-08 18:12 -0700
              Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-08 18:59 -0700
              Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-09 02:30 -0700
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-09 09:48 +0000
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Percy <percival.andrews@gmail.com> - 2012-08-10 06:33 -0700
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? "David N. Williams" <williams@umich.edu> - 2012-08-10 09:58 -0400
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-10 15:39 +0000
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? "David N. Williams" <williams@umich.edu> - 2012-08-10 16:15 -0400
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? percival.andrews@gmail.com - 2012-08-10 16:42 -0700
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2012-08-11 01:51 +0200
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? George Hubert <georgeahubert@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-11 06:25 -0700
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-11 09:12 +0000
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-13 14:28 -0700
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-14 00:51 +0200
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-13 16:24 -0700
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-14 03:25 +0200
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-14 07:54 -0700
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-14 23:22 +0200
                Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2012-08-16 00:37 -0700
      Re: Is this example in the Forth200x draft 11.1 correct? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-07 19:30 -0700

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