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I blew it making nForth compile-dominant (pseudo-interpret only text in square braces). It created annoying complications, and I switched back to normally-interpret and compile only things inside curly braces.
This is not traditional Forth, which automatically starts compiling at a `:` and ends the compile at a `;` -- I always hated that convention. The curly braces make code look C-shaped, and that is ok, because { this looks like a function definition ; }
So typing things in at the prompt works as expected, and regular parens can group expressions that are compiled together:
OK> sys
DSP RSP HERE SRC RUN
0882DFF4 FFC93170 0880F000 0882D003 0880F000
FFC93180 00000002 00000001
OK> ( ." hello" cr )
hello
OK> : foo { ." hello" cr ; }
OK> foo
hello
And all is well.
2023-09-22 · 11 months ago