In article <87ikkaxhy1.fsf@nightsong.com>,   
   Paul Rubin   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   Not one line, but short leaning on existing words.   
   Also these LOCAL's are not usable in recursed definition.   
   Example in the context of ciforth.   
      
   WANT VALUE [{   
   : LOCAL   
       POSTPONE [{ _ VALUE }] POSTPONE TO LATEST >LFA @   
       POSTPONE LITERAL POSTPONE EXECUTE   
    IMMEDIATE   
      
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