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Group: comp.lang.forth · Group Profile
Author: Andrew HaleyAndrew Haley Date: Sep 9, 2008 12:10
Elizabeth D Rather forth.com> wrote:> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Is it legal to use FIND on the name of a local variable to return xt
>> and then pass the xt to COMPILE, ? It doesn't seem to be forbiddedn
>> so I'm guessing this is OK.
> Where would you do this? The local exists only within the scope of the
> definition in which it's created, so you'd have to do whatever between a
> ] and [
Or an immediate word...
> and it all sounds very messy. Hard to imagine a context in which
> this would be a good idea,
Hah! I'll refer you to my not-yet-presented slides for EuroForth,
when all will become clear. :-)
Andrew.
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