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Subject: Metacompilation
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Date: 1 Feb 90 22:52:18 GMT
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 Date: 02-01-90 (03:07)              Number: 368 (Echo)
   To: GARY SMITH                    Refer#: 367
 From: RAY DUNCAN                      Read: NO
 Subj: LMI FORTH(S)                  Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 The Metacompiler is a compiler-compiler and as such is not completely
 analogous to a normal Forth programming environment.  Some directives
 or Forth "words" are hardwired and their action can't be changed at
 compile time.  Most of the Metacompiler's special directives (such as
 HEADERS and -HEADERS) are in this category; they affect the action of
 the compiler-compiler rather than having any emulated action on the
 target's compiler (which is being built but is not running).
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