From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 27/04/2025 8:28 pm, Hans Bezemer wrote:   
   > ...   
   > Just a shame the very basics are missing. The only thing holding Forth back   
   is the refusal to abstract strings. Wanna make it a counted string with a cell   
   count? Do it. Wanna keep on doing counted strings? Do it. Wanna do ASCIIZ   
   strings? No problem.   
      
   But aren't string primitives a la ANS-Forth the key to flexibility?  I've used   
   the concatenation primitive  +STRING ( a u a2 u2 -- a2 u+u2 )  countless times.   
      
   : ZPLACE ( c-addr u c-addr2 -- )  zcount +string + 0 swap c! ;   
      
   : ZAPPEND ( c-addr u c-addr2 -- )  zcount + zplace ;   
      
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