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Re: POSTPONE behaviour

From Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: POSTPONE behaviour
Organization nocrew
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Date 2015-11-30 13:41 +0100
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Gerry Jackson wrote:
> Hugh Aguilar wrote:
>> My MFX didn't involve writing my own outer-interpreter --- I used the
>> built-in outer-interpreter. The problem with this technique is that
>> numbers don't work because ?NUMBER isn't vectored and it can't be
>> rewritten to cross-compile numbers rather than do what it normally
>> does with numbers. Because of this MFX required the user to write
>> code like this:
>>
>> : test [ 123 ] literal ;
>
> Yes that's exactly what I did, not nice but usable.

A common variation on that is to have d# (and possibly h# etc) which
parses a decimal number and compiles a literal.  E.g.

: test d# 123 ;

Not a vast improvement, but slightly shorter.

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POSTPONE behaviour Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 21:18 -0800
  Re: POSTPONE behaviour Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 22:00 -0800
    Re: POSTPONE behaviour Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 22:15 -0800
      Re: POSTPONE behaviour Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 22:54 -0800
        Re: POSTPONE behaviour Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 23:09 -0800
        Re: POSTPONE behaviour Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-11-25 08:15 +0100
          Re: POSTPONE behaviour Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 23:38 -0800
            Re: POSTPONE behaviour Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-11-25 08:46 +0100
              Re: POSTPONE behaviour Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 00:04 -0800
            Re: POSTPONE behaviour rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 03:01 -0500
              Re: POSTPONE behaviour Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 00:09 -0800
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 03:23 -0500
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 01:09 -0800
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 10:49 -0500
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-25 09:10 -1000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-25 09:18 +0000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 02:21 -0800
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 02:47 -0800
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-25 13:58 +0000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 06:35 -0800
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-25 18:45 +0100
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 22:11 -0800
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-26 07:42 +0000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-11-26 05:20 -0500
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-26 16:50 +0000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-26 17:59 +0000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-27 19:07 +0100
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-28 11:24 +0000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-11-26 12:29 -0800
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-27 09:53 +0000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-11-29 21:48 -0800
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-30 12:18 +0000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-11-30 13:41 +0100
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-11-30 19:56 -0800
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-12-01 09:59 +0000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-12-01 22:46 -0800
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-12-02 07:50 +0000
              Re: POSTPONE behaviour anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-25 13:45 +0000
                Re: POSTPONE behaviour rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 10:54 -0500
        Re: POSTPONE behaviour Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-25 07:39 +0000
          Re: POSTPONE behaviour Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 23:48 -0800
            Re: POSTPONE behaviour Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-25 08:03 +0000
    Re: POSTPONE behaviour Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-25 18:37 +0100
  Re: POSTPONE behaviour "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-11-25 01:27 -0500
    Re: POSTPONE behaviour Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 22:51 -0800
  Re: POSTPONE behaviour Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 21:19 -0800

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