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Subject: ANS TC Magnet for Tick, >BODY, ['],etc
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Date: 6 May 91 00:39:09 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 25
Message 21        Sun May 05, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 10:09 EDT
 
Okay, I have a copy of BASIS15 now.

According to BASIS13, your example
 >  CREATE ...  HERE CONSTANT XYZZY
 would not necessarily work, because nothing equated the address returned by
CREATEd words to the address returned by HERE.

The first key addition in BASIS15 was section 5.4.1, which states (among other
things) that "HERE always identifies the beginning of the next region to be
allocated."

The second key addition was the rationale note in >BODY that you quoted
(although I don't know if the rationale note carries the same weight as the
text of the standard itself).

At any rate, you've answered my question -- the problem was fixed in BASIS15.

BTW, I found the section in BASIS13 perfectly understandable, Mitch. It's just
that there was a difference betweeen what it said, and what everyone assumed. 
Thanks (to you or whoever) for elucidating this in BASIS15.

Brad Rodriguez        | brad%candice@maccs.uucp      (God willing)
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