Re: DOES>Woes

At 09:20 PM 1/4/2004, you wrote:
>Thanks Elizabeth, I have been uncertain how Data Type and Name (using
>the notation of .allocation) assert themselves.

Review the SwiftX reference manual, Section 4.3.

>," looks like what I was looking for - I had not seen that before, and
>can't find any documentation on it, although I see it is a defined word
>in string.f. Thanks for the tip.

It's not as featured in the manuals as it should be, although it is
discussed in Forth Application Techniques. It compiles a counted string.

Example:
Create name ," Elizabeth"
: greet ( -- ) ." Hello, " name count type ;

Cheers,
name count type

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Received on Sun Jan 04 2004 - 22:54:13 PST