Re: VALUE and TO implementation (was: Operator overloading?)

Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> writes:

A testcase:
>
  : apply-compiling(to) ( sd.name -- )
    [: postpone to ;] execute-parsing
  ;

The standard says (in 6.2.2295):

|An ambiguous condition exists if any of POSTPONE, [COMPILE], ' or [']
|are applied to TO.

NB: "postpone" can be defined in a standard way via "find-name" so that
is apples to "to" [2].

But FIND-NAME is not in Forth-2012.  Maybe those who like this kind of
TO implementation will make a proposal that means that you cannot
POSTPONE TO with a user-defined POSTPONE.  Note that FIND and
SEARCH-WORDLIST are alreading in Forth-94, and TRAVERSE-WORDLIST is in
Forth-2012.

- anton
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