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A comment on Implementing DOES> in Forth, the entire reason I started this mess. Parent comment
It does this by doing something now, and later (you could read create does> as now later>)
So for
: CONSTANT CREATE , >DOES @ ;
This makes the defining word CONSTANT, which when run (now) compiles the next word
So CONSTANT myvar will compile myvar. Myvar, when run (later) will get it's value and push it to the datastack.
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It does this by doing something now, and later (you could read create does> as now later>)
So for
: CONSTANT CREATE , >DOES @ ;
This makes the defining word CONSTANT, which when run (now) compiles the next word
So CONSTANT myvar will compile myvar. Myvar, when run (later) will get it's value and push it to the datastack.