[colorforth] [Re: colorforth] an observation]

[Raphael LaFrance <rafe@xxxxxxxxx>]

The last word sillyness raised by me was elegantly handled by the OP using
a null to compile to a return. Which will work whenever a block is
initialized to 0's.

I haven't been into the official code for a few months but if the block
isn't set to 0s the compiler can just push a 0 (or a ret) down the code
area just past anything explicitly entered. The later seems more
efficient. That is, to have the compiler push a ret instruction behind
its entered code rather than depending on everything being initialized
properly.

I still need to figure out how the tail call removal would work (or see it
done). Seeing that the comiler wont know where the end of a definition is
until you tell it some how. I really like that feature. But it's only an
issue on the last word in a block. & only if '...' proves useful to the
community. In colorforth, that is, not its over use of in some posts :)

But this isn't new information so... back to lurk mode


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