From: minforth@gmx.net   
      
   Am 03.07.2025 um 01:59 schrieb Paul Rubin:   
   > Hans Bezemer  writes:   
   >> 1. Adding general locals is trivial. It takes just one single line of   
   >> Forth.   
   >   
   > I don't see how to do it in one line, and trivial is a subjective term.   
   > I'd say in any case that it's not too difficult, but one line seems   
   > overoptimistic.  Particularly, you need something like (LOCAL) in the   
   > VM.  The rest is just some extensions to the colon compiler.  Your   
   > mention of it taking 3-4 screens sounded within reason to me, and I   
   > don't consider that to be a lot of code.   
      
   I would not implement locals for simple integers only. Forth has enough   
   stack gymnastics words for that.   
      
   IMO locals only make sense if you can at least additionally handle   
   floats and dynamic strings, preferably also structs and arrays.   
   Such an implementation is certainly not trivial.   
      
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