[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 7/10] Apple local variables implementation in Forth

William Hahne hahne1 at illinois.edu
Tue Aug 16 03:08:33 CEST 2011


On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Right I understand this, but I'm fairly sure there is an official spec for
> Forth local variables somewhere. For something to be committed, I'd expect
> the commit reference to contain a link to the source specification and
> comments in the code giving an indication as to what the level of
> implementation actually is (I absolutely understand that it can be
> impractical to implement everything within the time available).

Forth itself has no local variables, there are several unofficial
implementations, but I am focusing on Apple's implementation. As far
as I can tell the implementation is complete, this is why there are no
comments noting the level of completeness.

William Hahne

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