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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Given a string, create word with that name (in ANS Forth)?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 14:31:16 -0700
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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gforth.git/tree/compat/execute-parsing.fs
> So you'd use
>    ( c-addr u) ' CREATE EXECUTE-PARSING

I remember thinking that implemention was very clever but it would be
nicer if Forth included the functionality directly.  A lot of the
machinery in Forth seems to be there for the sake of implementing Forth
itself, so various small gaps like that call out for being filled.