[retroforth] Re: RetroForth 7.5.1 coming soon

  • From: Charles Childers <crc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: retroforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 03:32:26 -0500

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>>I'd prefer it to become a normal word, though that will require some 
>>modification of existing sources.
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>Will it make life easier for the user if it's a normal word?
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I believe so. Basically you don't have to use the m: prefix before using 
it. Since it's almost always used in macros, (at least by me), this 
saves some typing and is a little more readable:

As a macro:    : s" '" parse m: $, ;
As a word:     : s" '" parse $, ;

--
Charles

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