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Re: Naming issues in create-does

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On 13/06/2026 4:22 am, Anton Ertl wrote:
> anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>> Overall, SET-DOES> is unambiguous and good enough.
> 
> But while we are at it, according to Andrew Haley early Forth had USE
> with the same functionality as SET-DOES>.

I don't recall that one.  AFAIK the original definer was in the form:

  : ... CONSTANT ;: ... ;

Presumably 2CONSTANT VARIABLE etc could also be used.  Hard to find actual
examples as vintage code is scarce.

In addition to CREATE DOES> F83 had:

  : CONSTANT   (S n -- )
     CREATE ,   ;USES DOCONSTANT ,

a move closer to the xt variants.

DX-Forth implemented BUILD to support its compilation model.  I saw no
reason to persist with the 'CREATE then patch' concept.

  : CONSTANT ['] @ BUILD , ;

> 
> Unfortunatley, Gforth contains a word USE with a different meaning:
> 
>   'use' ( "file" -  ) gforth-0.2
>      Open file as the current blocks file.
> 
> - anton

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