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From: scowl@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Scott W. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: TILE bug in local variables and argument binding
Keywords: argument binding local variables comments
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Date: 31 Dec 89 02:57:50 GMT
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Reply-To: scowl@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Scott W. Larson)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State Univ., Oregon
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It's really tempting to comment your arguments and local variables:

: test { arg ( this is an argument )
		 | local_var ( this is a local variable ) }

I've had nothing but trouble doing this. The argument never appears to
bind, and the comment for the local variable terminates in strange
places.