Re: Nested definitions

Am 02.07.2025 um 17:12 schrieb Anton Ertl:

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

On 2025-07-02 15:37, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

Or it has not even know it, if [ is smart enough to compile a jump to
after ].

>
This can be tricky because the following should work:
>
   create foo [ 123 , ] [ 456 ,
>
   : bar  [ ' foo compile, 123 lit, ] ;

 The benefit of defining a normal colon definition inside another colon
definition eludes me, however.  Maybe mutual recursion, but the need
is rare and deferred words handle that well.
 

Many roads lead to Rome. By accident, my quotations have read/write
access to the locals of the parent function, but not vice versa.
Apart from function encapsulation, the benefit is that I don't
have to pass all quotation parameters over the stack, which makes
the code very straightforward and readable.