On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Alexander Ilin <ajs...@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>   That's a very useful feature, and it seems to be there for five years! But 
> why is it not described or even mentioned?

I don't know why it's not documented but it looks like an anonymous
form of UNION:. The following is equivalent:

UNION: string-or-false string POSTPONE: f ;
TUPLE: foo { name string-or-false } ;

and:

TUPLE: foo { name maybe{ string } } ;

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