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   minforth   wrote:   
   >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.   
   >   
      
   Second that. iforth sports not only LOCAL (values), but also   
   FLOCAL DLOCAL DFLOCAL. You end up establishing a whole menagery   
   of shadow Forth words.   
      
   It is much simpler to allow definitions in a [ .. ] sequence.   
      
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