On Mar 22, 6:43 am, Doug Hoffman <no.spam> wrote:
> William James wrote:
> > : from_corner { x y xx yy -- }
> > x y xx y line
> > x y x yy line ;
> > : box { x y xx yy -- }
> > x y xx yy from_corner
> > xx yy x y from_corner ;
> Yes. Lots of ways to solve the problem. (is that *factoring* with
locals?) ;-)
Yeah, locals makes Forth more like C, so you factor with locals like
you factor in C (if you have to program in C want to save your
sanity).