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From: wmb@SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley)
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Subject: Re:  create ...
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Date: 12 Sep 89 16:54:06 GMT
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The ROMability problem with CREATE  and  ALLOT or ,  is addressed by
a proposal that Andy Kobziar submitted to the ANSI Forth standard committee.

The idea is change the specification of ALLOT so that instead of allocating
memory in "dictionary space", it instead allocates from "data space",
wherever that is.  In conventional RAM-base systems, data space and
dictionary space would be the same thing.

The words , C, CREATE and HERE would be similarly affected, and DOES>
would leave the appropriate address on the stack at run-time.

The proposal hasn't been acted upon yet.

Mitch