Re: Request for code clarification

[dave selby]

Thank you for your email,

Perhaps a better way for me to word it would have been to say why is (
referencing a previous version of (  ?

Kind Regards

Dave Selby (Engineer 784)


On Thu, 21 Nov 2024, 22:18 Bernd Paysan, <bernd@net2o.de> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 21. November 2024, 23:05:28 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
> schrieb dave selby:
> > Hello
> >
> > Not sure if this is the correct forum to ask but there is a bit of code I
> > don't understand. I am looking to define (( .. )) and was looking at ( )
> > code, it all makes sense except for the first line
> >
> > loadfile @ 0= IF postpone (  EXIT  THEN
> >
> > Why would you postpone an earlier definition of ( if you are on the
> command
> > line and not compiling ?
>
> The line before starts with
>
> : (
>
> starting a definition, and you are compiling at that next line.
>
> You can paste the definition line by line, and the prompt will tell you
> when
> you are compiling:
>
> : ( ( compilation 'ccc<close-paren>' -- ; run-time -- ) \ core,file
>  paren
> compiled
>     loadfile @ 0= IF  postpone (  EXIT  THEN  compiled
>     BEGIN  compiled
>         >in @  compiled
>         ')' parse nip  compiled
>
>
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