Re: [Amforth-devel] 2variable definition - 2 versions

[Matthias T. <mt...@we...>]

Leon,

> The description of HERE reads "address of the next free dictionary
> cell" -- which sounds like the old version. So is the code bleeding
> edge but not the comments?

Have you ever seen a valid and correct comment in source code? ;=)
just fixed it, thank you.

> So the html is based off the sources, which has definitions that are
> essentially compiled by hand?

Yes.

> But if I were defining VARIABLE
> interactively, ':' would take care of adding (LITERAL) for me?

The (literal) is included automatically (and needs to get
smarter somehow for dealing with double cell numbers, see
Pitos bug with the 1.).

> Is the "(CREATE) COMPILE COMPILE" in the definition of VARIABLE
> another artifact of being compiled by hand?

There is no compile compile... ? And never has been in 
variable.asm? the sequence "compile compile" can be
the result of a "postpone compile" in real forth code.

> If I were defining
> VARIABLE interactively, I would be able to use CREATE?

sure.

The current definition is as follows:

: variable here constant 2 allot ;

Matthias