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From: andrew@idacom.UUCP (Andrew Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Help w/ compiler words
Keywords: Don't have <BUILDS, but have DOES>
Message-ID: <710@idacom.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 89 19:53:22 GMT
References: <10371@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: IDACOM Electronics Ltd., Edmonton, Alta.
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In article <10371@dasys1.UUCP>, aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes:
> 
> 	1- I'm trying to define a new type of variable, one that holds
>            someone else's CFA. Is there a command that can take a CFA off
>            of the stack and execute it?

The word you're looking for is EXECUTE .  For example:

VARIABLE Vector

: DoVector   Vector @ EXECUTE ;

' ForthWord CFA Vector !
DoVector

In some Forths, there is a word, @EXECUTE, that optimizes the @ EXECUTE
sequence.


>         2- How do define a compiler word without <BUILDS? I have a DOES>.
>            I thought of [COMPILE] :, but in my application it wastes space.

In many Forths (like Forth-83), CREATE is a syunonym for the FIG-Forth <BUILDS.
You might have CREATE on your system.
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