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Re: +TO in GForth

Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Date 2014-02-21 10:39 -0800
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Subject Re: +TO in GForth
From Harold <hzrabbie@gmail.com>

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On Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:36:58 PM UTC-8, hughag...@yahoo.com wrote:

> The ANS-Forth >BODY only works with words defined by CREATE. In 6.1.0550 it says: "An ambiguous condition exists if xt is not for a word defined via CREATE."
 
Correct.
 
> I would expect an optimizing compiler to define VALUE such that it generates a colon word.

If the dictionary is writeable, I'd expect VALUE to compile the same as CONSTANT. The run-time semantics are the same. 

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+TO in GForth Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-19 07:08 -0800
  Re: +TO in GForth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 07:31 -0800
  Re: +TO in GForth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-19 15:36 +0000
    Re: +TO in GForth hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-20 21:36 -0800
      Re: +TO in GForth Harold <hzrabbie@gmail.com> - 2014-02-21 10:39 -0800
      Re: +TO in GForth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 04:31 -0800
        Re: +TO in GForth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 15:10 -0800
  Re: +TO in GForth hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-19 22:44 -0800

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