Re: Is interpret/compile the wrong distinction?

On Mar 23, 10:16 pm, Jonah Thomas <jethom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> So you need interpreted parsing words to parse and save strings that
then get acted on later, more complex.

No you don't. All you need is an immediate string word or a token the
compiler recognizes as marking that the rest of a word is a string.
When it executes, it puts a string on stack. If its the temporary
buffer, you know that the string does not live past the end of the
line, so the system is designed to make immediate use of a string that
might be handed to it when not compiling or else store it somewhere.

If its been compiled, its the same SLITERAL that its based on, except
the string is permanent.

Its not Forth-94 of course, but a coherent system where all words that
are name parsing words in Forth-94 are words that expect a string
address count pair in Forth-Line is straightforward.

That's why my fictitious Forth-Line has:

" square : dup * ;