Re: RfD - Enhanced local variable syntax (long)

Andreas Kochenburger wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2006 16:04:53 -0700, "Alex McDonald"
> <alex_mcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >c) Locals shall not be declared until values previously placed on the
> >return stack within the definition have been removed;
>
> I'd prefer that the locals definition must be the first definition
> within a word, i.e. appear right after : NAME ..
> This can easily be checked by the compiler.

It can't be parsed for as it would break a lot of code. It can be
detected only if { can ascertain that there's been no code generated
between : and { . Would that not give optimising compilers some
difficulties?

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Regards
Alex McDonald