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From: andrew@idacom.uucp (Andrew Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Compiling without :
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Date: 7 Sep 90 23:04:26 GMT
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John Hayes writes:
> This new word, named START: (start-colon), creates an execution token.
...
> I want to encourage everyone to implement START: and work with it.
> Any comments?

I like the word - I've used a similar construct many times before.  I have
one question, though.  It's not stated in your description and example, but
it is implied that ; cannot be used to end a code fragment started with
START: .  You created ;sim in your example:

>     : ;sim   postpone exit postpone [ ; immediate

Am I correct in drawing this conclusion?
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