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Re: Is [compile] really used in this day and age?

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Coos Haak wrote:
> I later found out that the '-r' option of grep (ubuntu and cygwin) does
> not seem to work. A small cohort of files in subdirectories of the
> gforth-0.7.9 tar tree do still use [compile].

The cross-compiler has [compile] for forward references, because since these 
words haven't been yet defined, the cross compiler needs a-priori knowledge 
of their immediate state, and [compile] does provide that (i.e. it just 
compiles them as forward references).

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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Is [compile] really used in this day and age? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-09-26 00:39 +0200
  Re: Is [compile] really used in this day and age? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-09-29 13:53 +0000
    Re: Is [compile] really used in this day and age? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-09-29 21:48 +0200
      Re: Is [compile] really used in this day and age? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-09-30 00:12 +0200
      Re: Is [compile] really used in this day and age? "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-09-30 04:20 -0400

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