Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth

Created: 2022-09-26T21:00:37-05:00

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Rule of thumb: no more than two lines of code per definition.

Immediate words: executed mid-compile rather than compiled as a function call.

Postpone: sends code down the compiler pipe. When combined with Immediate you have the equivalent of a Lisp compiler macro.

Manipulating the return stack to implement far returns and call-with-current-continuation.