[colorforth] New, Improved "Hello, World!"

[Steve Smith <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <MDAEMON-F200107281512.AA123790md80000130173@chaossolutions.o
rg>, Kristopher Johnson <kristopher_d_johnson@xxxxxxxxx> writes
>I've made an attempt at a better "Hello, world!" program.  But it doesn't work
>and I can't figure out why.
>
>macro
>: 1@ ( a-c ) 8a 2, ;  \ retrieve byte at address
>forth
Kris,

Did you allow for the fact that 1@ expects a byte address on the stack
and the pop used to get the string address may be returning a cell
address and therefore needs to be multiplied by 4 to be used by 1@ ?

Cheers,

Steve.
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