Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!ccplumb
From: ccplumb@watmath.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: what is forth?
Message-ID: <18088@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 88 04:45:01 GMT
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Reply-To: ccplumb@watmath.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
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My favourite forth definition, actually quite useful (it's required by
F-83, I'm pretty sure) is:

: ? @ . ;

or, prettyprinted to the point of absurdity, for the benefit of beginners:

: ? ( addr --)	( prints the value at address addr)
		( usually used as "x ?" to print the contents of variable x))
	@	( val)	( "fetch")
	.	( )	( "print")
;
--
	-Colin (watmath!ccplumb)

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