Re: [Flashforth-devel] Is */ missing from Flash forth 3.8 ?

[Donald G. <dgo...@sb...>]

All new comers to Forth need to buy or download two books by Leo Brodie:

Starting Forth: http://www.wulfden.org/downloads/Forth_Resources/LB__StartingForth.pdf

Thinking Forth: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0976458705
or Free: http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/

Starting Forth will show you how to use use Forth like any other programming language.  

The real power of Forth is explained in Thinking Forth.  You can use Forth to create your own language!  Thinking Forth tells you how to do this using CREATE DOES plus other words.  You can even use core primitive words used to create Forth itself.  In Forth, nothing is hidden, not even core words like INTERPRET (parses input stream then executes the words).

Forth is an operating system too, a powerful feature for embedded system programming.

Don




________________________________
 From: Pete Zawasky <pza...@pz...>
To: FF mailing list <fla...@li...> 
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashforth-devel] Is */ missing from Flash forth 3.8 ?
 

Hi again Simon,

As far as CREATE and DOES> ,   go to the wiki, select Browse Pages and 
look in my file  FF3.81Utility Words.
Look at ARRAY and CARRAY.  Not a lot of additional info but it may help.

Pete



On 3/24/2014 3:50 PM, Simon Bradley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just started with this on a PIC 18F2550 and found that */
> seems to be missing. As this is a core part of Forth (I think), is
> there a way to put it back in at that level? I know it is supposed
> to use an intermediate double length result so replacing with * /
> will not do the same.
>
> Forth takes some getting used to ... :)
>
> Any tips or short examples using CREATE and DOES> would be nice too :)
>
> That is, longer examples than the usual CONSTANT example where DOES> @ ;
> is used. I don't quite understand how the mechanism works yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon.
>
>
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