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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> You might then just as well work with >R >R >R >R and R@, R'@, 2 RPICK
> and 3 RPICK.

But, now you have to avoid mixing that style with using the R stack for
temporaries, including stuff like loop indexes which sometimes go
there.  And you have to clean up the R stack before returning, and maybe
arrange for that to happen in case of an exception.

Flashforth has a separate P stack which can be used for temporaries
within a word, but I don't remember how cleanup is handled, if at all.