Re: [colorforth] new color

[Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adding a new color is not difficult. Adding a word which parses would be a 
bit clusmy in colorForth, besides colorForth has no character ' .

The effect of a magenta defined word, when executed is to return an 
address in source, orange would return the address of the defintion.

I'm not familer with the other 'defer', I copied this from Chuck. The 
name makes sense as is by the fact the execution of the rest of word is 
defered when 'defer' is executed.


On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, John Drake wrote:

> I'm a bit confused by the proposal.  Are you
> looking to do the same as the tick word is
> traditional Forth?
>
> ' foo ( put the address of foo on the stack).
>
> If so, then wouldn't re-introducing tick to
> ColorForth be easier than introducing a new
> color?  (Not sure what goes on to adding
> colors frankly.)
>
> Or is the color for defining words that
> return their address?  If so, isn't that
> what magenta words do?
>
> Also what is the "meaning" of the word "defer"?
> I realize that it's doing a "pop" but what is
> it accomplishing?  I'm used to "defer" in ANS
> Forth that's used to create a word that can
> be re-vectored later.  Is that what's going
> on here, or something else?
>
> Regards,
>
> John M. Drake

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