Re: What with `` BL WORD ''

albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:

In view of Gigabyte memories, a lot of interference could also be
avoided, if BL WORD were entitled to ALLOT the space.
A permanent region could serve as a transient region, so
from the users of WORD there is no problem.
>
: WORD WORD DUP COUNT ALLOT ALIGN ; \ Or some such.
>
Is this in conflict with the standard?

Yes.  In

create foo bl word bar drop 1234 ,
foo @ .

the standard specifies that this prints "1234", but with your
redefinition of WORD, it does not.

More formally, the standard specifies that the memory allocated by ,
is contiguous with the data space of FOO, and WORD is not one of the
words that terminates a contiguous region.

- anton
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