Thank you for your email, Perhaps a better way for me to word it would have been to say why is ( referencing a previous version of ( ?
Kind Regards Dave Selby (Engineer 784) On Thu, 21 Nov 2024, 22:18 Bernd Paysan, <be...@net2o.de> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 21. November 2024, 23:05:28 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit > schrieb dave selby: > > Hello > > > > Not sure if this is the correct forum to ask but there is a bit of code I > > don't understand. I am looking to define (( .. )) and was looking at ( ) > > code, it all makes sense except for the first line > > > > loadfile @ 0= IF postpone ( EXIT THEN > > > > Why would you postpone an earlier definition of ( if you are on the > command > > line and not compiling ? > > The line before starts with > > : ( > > starting a definition, and you are compiling at that next line. > > You can paste the definition line by line, and the prompt will tell you > when > you are compiling: > > : ( ( compilation 'ccc<close-paren>' -- ; run-time -- ) \ core,file > paren > compiled > loadfile @ 0= IF postpone ( EXIT THEN compiled > BEGIN compiled > >in @ compiled > ')' parse nip compiled > > > -- > Bernd Paysan > "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" > net2o id: kQusJzA;7*?t=uy@X}1GWr!+0qqp_Cn176t4(dQ* > https://net2o.de/ >
