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Re: Detecting low-level words.

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Detecting low-level words.
Date 2014-04-27 12:35 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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"Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> writes:
>
>Do most Forths have a mechanism to detect low-level words ("primitives")?

Yes, except for (some?) native-code Forth systems.

>E.g., say I need to determine if BYE is a low-level word or
>a compiled definition.
>
>If yes, is there any common word to do so?

No.

>If not, is there a method that works for most Forths? interpreted Forths?

For interpreted Forths, SEE may show the difference.

- anton
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Detecting low-level words. "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-04-27 00:23 -0400
  Re: Detecting low-level words. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-04-26 22:56 -1000
  Re: Detecting low-level words. anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-04-27 12:35 +0000
  Detecting low-level words. Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-04-27 09:29 -0700
    Detecting low-level words. Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-04-27 09:30 -0700
    Re: Detecting low-level words. "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-04-28 01:22 -0400
      Re: Detecting low-level words. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-04-27 22:10 -1000
        Re: Detecting low-level words. "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-04-28 05:58 -0400
          Re: Detecting low-level words. foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2014-04-28 19:51 -0700
            Re: Detecting low-level words. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-04-28 18:22 -1000
              Re: Detecting low-level words. Gary Bergstrom <forthprgrmr@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 20:59 -0700
                Re: Detecting low-level words. AKK <akk@nospam.org> - 2014-04-30 10:50 +0200
                Re: Detecting low-level words. Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2014-04-30 13:23 +0200
                Re: Detecting low-level words. mhx@iae.nl - 2014-04-30 11:06 -0700
                Re: Detecting low-level words. Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2014-04-30 23:15 +0200
          Re: Detecting low-level words. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-04-30 10:28 +0000
  Re: Detecting low-level words. Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-04-27 22:36 -0700

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