[OpenBIOS] name of current word

Programmingkid programmingkidx at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 21:17:43 CEST 2010


>> Is there a word that can tell me the name of the current word that is executing?
>> 
>> I want something like this:
>> 
>> : myword
>> obtainWord
>> ;
>> 
>> obtainWord would somehow return "myword". Any tips would be great.
> 
> No, I don't think this is really possible because of the way in which 
> Forth works (at least I ended up using a different solution for the 
> debugger anyway).
> 
> Is there a reason that you're not using the in-built debugger for this? 
> I'm fairly sure it would make your life much easier.

I'm making code that will associate a value with a function name and will store both in a table. Thank you Mark and Stefan for helping.



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