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From: "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: quick review of <BUILDS and CREATE history
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:27:13 -0500
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:01:09 -0500, Elizabeth D. Rather  
<erather@forth.com> wrote:

> Completely wrong.

I was being sarcastic at the "Odd..."

That's how my Forth works.  It was constructed that way
after help from you and Andrew (IIRC, or maybe it was
Alex...) on correctly implementing :NONAME.  The
differences between my CREATE and :NONAME were trivial.

> It sounds as though you have a very
> mistaken notion of what :NONAME does.

AIUI, :NONAME is the same as : except it doesn't install
a name into the dictionary header of the word being defined
and it returns an xt.  It's definition is terminated by
a ; just like a : definition.  It compiles a definition
just like a : definition.

In most Forths, : calls CREATE to build the header
and insert the name the word being defined.  After
CREATE is finished, the colon definition continues
compiling until ; .

AIUI, all I've done is switch things around to build
: up from :NONAME instead of using CREATE.  If it's
correct, which I believe it is, <BUILDS can be built
 from :NONAME also.

Some of the other confusing stuff was because I have
two : and two ; .  One of each is an initial bootstrap,
and the other is a redefine into high-level Forth.

If it's not correct, I guess I'm going to have to track
down some more tests since Hayes etc didn't notice...


Rod Pemberton