Also, I'm not sure why you need a parsing word for that, you can just:
IN: foo
SYMBOL: foo
IN: bar
foo [ "hello" ] initialize
... or
"hello" foo set-global
the first will initialize if not ``f``, the second will always set.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Andrea Ferretti <ferrettiand...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi, I am trying to define some syntax words that should have effect on
> a global (or dynamic) variable. What I am trying to achieve is
> something similar to how the LIBRARY: word affects later occurrences
> of FUNCTION:
>
> The problem is, it does not seem to work. The simplest example I can
> make is up the following.
>
> In package foo
>
> USING: kernel lexer namespaces ;
> IN: foo
>
> SYMBOL: foo
>
> SYNTAX: FOO: scan-token foo set ;
>
> Then in package bar
>
> USING: namespaces foo prettyprint ;
> IN: bar
>
> FOO: hello
>
> foo get .
>
>
> This executes the top level form `foo get .` but prints f instead of
> "hello". The same happens if I use run-file directly. If, instead, I
> make the same declaration
>
> FOO: hello
>
> in the listener, I can check that foo is modified.
>
> Is there a way to make this work? I could also avoi the variable, but
> while parsing I do not have access to the stack, and so I do not know
> how to pass any information among parsing words.
>
>
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