From: ruvim.pinka@gmail.com   
      
   On 2024-08-04 12:05, Paul Rubin wrote:   
   > mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes:   
   >> Am I the only one that thinks parsing words are an incredible nuisance?   
   >   
   > I haven't followed this whole thing and didn't realize a sane   
   > non-parsing TO was even possible.  I've sometimes thought of a version   
   > of VALUE that makes two separate words, for reading and writing the   
   > value:   
   >   
   > 17 XVALUE foo   
   >   
   > creates two words, "?foo" and "!foo".  ?foo pushes the value from foo   
   > (initially 17) onto the stack.  !foo moves TOS to foo.   
      
   I use this approach, but with "foo" instead of "?foo".   
      
   A standard-compliant implementation:   
      
      
      
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