Re: VALUE and TO implementation

mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes:

Am I the only one that thinks parsing words are an incredible nuisance?

I haven't followed this whole thing and didn't realize a sane
non-parsing TO was even possible.  I've sometimes thought of a version
of VALUE that makes two separate words, for reading and writing the
value:

17 XVALUE foo

creates two words, "?foo" and "!foo".  ?foo pushes the value from foo
(initially 17) onto the stack.  !foo moves TOS to foo.