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Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions?

From stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions?
Message-ID <5111010b.943842178@192.168.0.50> (permalink)
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Date 2013-02-05 12:58 +0000

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On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:57:49 -0800 (PST), Mark Wills
<forthfreak@gmail.com> wrote:

>What's the use case for ACTION-OF ?
>
>I'm struggling to see why/how it's useful.
>
>Okay, from the command line, I can say:
>
>HEX
>ACTION-OF PLUS .
>
>and I can see the XT of PLUS's action. So it's a bit of syntactic
>sugar to save you typing:
>
>' PLUS DEFER@ .
>
>What's its utility in compilation state?

You want to change the action of a DEFERred word and will
later want to restore it.

variable old-action
defer actor

: new-foo ...  ;

: set  \ --
  action-of actor old-action !
  ['] new-foo is actor
;

: restore   \ --
  old-action @ is actor
;

Stephen

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On-the-fly updating of word definitions? AKE <assadebrahim2000@gmail.com> - 2013-02-03 06:18 -0800
  Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-03 07:15 -0800
    Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? AKE <assadebrahim2000@gmail.com> - 2013-02-03 07:25 -0800
  Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? Bruno Gauthier <bgauthier@free.fr> - 2013-02-03 16:24 +0100
    Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? AKE <assadebrahim2000@gmail.com> - 2013-02-03 07:33 -0800
    Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-03 09:27 -0800
  Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-02-03 07:34 -0800
    Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-02-03 10:32 -0600
      Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-02-03 08:44 -1000
    Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-04 16:07 +0000
      Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-04 17:27 -0800
      Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-04 23:57 -0800
        ACTION-OF (was: On-the-fly updating of word definitions?) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-02-05 11:45 +0000
        Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2013-02-05 12:58 +0000
          Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2013-02-05 05:20 -0800
  Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2013-02-05 09:22 +0100
    Re: On-the-fly updating of word definitions? mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2013-02-05 18:08 +0200

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