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   Gerry Jackson to Gerry Jackson   
   Re: Conditional compilation   
   30 Oct 25 22:11:47   
   
   From: do-not-use@swldwa.uk   
      
   On 30/10/2025 16:24, Gerry Jackson wrote:   
   > Surprisingly (to me at least) the existing multi-line comment using   
   > parentheses ( and ) can be synonyms of [ELSE].   
      
   This isn't quite true as ) is not a Forth word, The word ( parses for   
   the character ) and so ) need not have space(s) on both sides of it.   
      
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   Gerry   
      
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