Re: [Flashforth-devel] Trying to make forth word SYNONYM

[Mikael N. <mik...@fl...>]

You could use conditional compilation instead.

: ?\  ( fl --- )
   0=
   if
     postpone \
   then
; immediate


Described by Marc Petremann here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/flashforth/discussion/726813/thread/6257e78a31/

BR Mikael

On 2023-04-25 16:56, Tristan Williams wrote:
> Hello Mikael,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.
> 
>> What is the use case for this.
> 
> I'm not sure which size of the PIC18Fx6Q761 (or other PIC) I'm going
> to use in my project and so a mcu pin attached to given piece of
> hardware may change as result this or may just change as the project
> develops.  I want to write some of the firmware at the same time as I
> test out the hardware and the mcu choices. Having synonym would allow
> me to map a descriptive pin name to its actual pin easily. I have pins
> defined as RA0 RA1 etc. where RA0 results in ( -- mask port ) so I
> could map
> 
> alias motor_enable RA0
> alias fan_enable   RA1
> 
> and then use motor_enable in subsequent code and only need to change 
> the
> mapping at the top of the file
>