Re: portable or not? Volatile strings

In article <66bd607c$1@news.ausics.net>, dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:

On 15/08/2024 5:46 am, minforth wrote:

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:49:45 +0000, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

Ticking a constant or constant string makes no sense.

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Try
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' +INF
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It takes forever.

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Some folks think this works :)
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' God
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Some Forth try to speed up by predefining constants:

' 0
 OK
 .S

S[ 4206176 ] OK
SEE 0

0000,0000,0000,0000 CONSTANT 0

What has to do with anything?

Groetjes Albert
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