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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 17:49:53 +0000
From: Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com>
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Subject: Re: Boring for most of you, but I'm having fun ... :)
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On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:16:52 +0100
Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Instead of having all variables initialized with a constant
> (Mecrisp), I would rather go at having a separate initialized
> version of VARIABLE, since this is not always needed, and
> then, the variable initializing region can be even smaller.

This sounds good, especially for very small systems. There will
need an additional way to allocate RAM, so that only the section
for the new variable is initialized to individual values.

Perhaps: 

   #VARIABLE ( n -- ; -- addr )

An alternate would be to mandate that all VARIABLEs are
initialized to zero, and frig your code to match. 

Jan Coombs