Re:Forth vs Lisp
by rbanffy on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @06:57PM
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> A defined word which consumes 17 operands from the stack,
It’s been a long while since I last wrote a line of Forth, but issues like these can be countered with some parseable documentation. If the documentation of the word says it consumes 17 operands from the stack and returns 9, the compiler will be able to tell if either code or doc is lying.
It’s been a long while since I last wrote a line of Forth, but issues like these can be countered with some parseable documentation. If the documentation of the word says it consumes 17 operands from the stack and returns 9, the compiler will be able to tell if either code or doc is lying.