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Subject: ANS FORTH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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Date: 24 Apr 91 03:10:44 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 2
Message 149       Sun Apr 21, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 21:49 EDT
 
> Brad, you surely mean
 >    : IS ( <word> cfa -- )   ' >BODY ! ;
 > and
 >    ' word-name  IS  deferred-word
 > , right?

Duh.  Yes, that's what I meant.  Thanks, Ulrich.  (Thanks also for a posting
with your email address...I had lost track of you.)

The troublesome clause from BASIS13 is from section 5.3.2.  It clearly states:

"...it is an exception if a Standard Program addresses memory other
 than:
 in dictionary space regions:
   from the address provided by a CREATEd word or HERE to the end of
   the region generated by consecutive allocations ( , C, ALLOT
   ALIGN ) made without intervening definitions or deallocations
   ( FORGET );
 [rest of this section is about non-dictionary space]"

This means that if you build a defined word with CREATE (or a word like DEFER
which uses CREATE), say  CREATE FOO  , you can use the address returned by
FOO.  Period.  Nowhere does it say you can tick FOO for its parameter field
address, and this clause is carefully worded such that anything not explicitly
permitted is forbidden.

Has this clause been fixed in the latest BASIS?

P.S. I can live with DEFER in the Core Extension wordset.  I'm just touchy
about the Core wordset.

Brad Rodriguez        | brad%candice@maccs.uucp      (God willing)
 B.RODRIGUEZ2 on GEnie | brad%candice@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
 "Shoes for industry!" | bradford@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca  (archaic)

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