[retroforth] Re: reuse word name?
- From: Charles Childers <charles.childers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: retroforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 04:57:51 -0500
> The definition
> : whatever s" whatever" type ;
> stores the character string two times.
True enough, once for the name in the dictionary, once in the string
table. It's separate memory areas... I have to admit though: when I
first read the "stores the character string two times" I though you
were talking about a bug in s" :-)
> How can I define a set of words printing their own names?
> SwiftForth has some words helping with this (>body >name >xt).
I'll see what I can do; it's early here, but I've got a few hours of
free time right now. Maybe I can pull something off.
--
Charles
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