Re: ADDRESSABLE: value-flavoured words

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

Why does this name end with a colon?
Just `addressable` (without a colon) looks better.

Inside a locals definition {: ... :}, names ending in ":" are
reserved.  So, to avoid potential conflicts with existing names in
existing standard code, the word used inside {: ... :} ends in a
colon.  And consequently, the word using outside {: ... :} ends in a
colon, too.

: bar {: addressable: x -- y :}
   5 addr x +! x ;

>
>
This declaration of `x` does not look good regardless of the colon.

I hope this makes you think twice about whether you really need an
addressable value-flavoured local.

- anton
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