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From: esulzner@cadev4.intel.com (Eric Sulzner ~)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Runtime compiling?
Keywords: Tyro, help
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Date: 22 Jun 89 18:56:58 GMT
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Can CREATE, VARIABLE and such (or equivalent functionality) be used
within a colon definition without passing the names to the
definitions?  (Preferably, is there some place I can put the names
and a pointer I can set to make Forth think it's reading the name from
the input stream?) As in : EXAMP ( --) CREATE ENTRY 1024 ALLOT ; ( I
know that doesn't work).

I'd like my program to be able to allocate arrays and create variables
based on runtime needs.

I'm running FF-Forth on an AT clone.

I could get around the problem by preallocating all possible arrays and
variables and writing routines to save only the used portions, but it
would be cleaner to do it as needed.




Eric Sulzner	esulzner@cadev4.UUCP   esulzner@cadev4.intel.com   54177