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From: DAVID@PENNDRLS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: 'local variables' (was Re: FORTH "Pre-compiler")
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Date: 4 Aug 88 15:09:28 GMT
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Good article, Lee.  I try not get religious about my liking for
FORTH, but sometimes my enthusiasm gets the better of me . . .

To get away from discussions of FORTH vs X, can I ask you to
elaborate a bit on the concept of 'local variables'?  I understand
how to implement the multiple code field variable (another one of
those 'should have been obvious' concepts), but I don't have
a clear picture of how a 'local variable' works.

Discussions of FORTH programming techniques is something I would
like to see more of on the newsgroup.  Andre Pirard's posting
gave me some good ideas, and now yours.  Anybody else have
favorite 'cute tricks' and nice constructs?

-- R. David Murray    (DAVID@PENNDRLS.BITNET, DAVID@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU)