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From: rob@idacom.uucp (Rob Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: interpreted control structures
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.203408.13630@idacom.uucp>
Date: 26 Sep 90 20:34:08 GMT
Organization: IDACOM, a division of Hewlett-Packard
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>Michael Saari writes:
>
>Many of my examples used interactive "compile-only" words, such as:
>ok  begin  4000 c@ .   key? until
>11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
>ok
>which is allowed in our versions of Forth (but not in the 83-Standard).
>Personally, I consider this a deficiency in the Standard.

Also to others who have used or created interpreted control structures:

Would the following work:

	CREATE crc-table  255 0 DO  I CRC-LOOKUP ,  LOOP

If I have interpreted control structures, I would like to use them at compile
time to initialize tables.  Are there systems that allow this?  And what are
the complexities/tradeoffs involved?

Interested,
Rob