2021-11-21 04:58:08 Could anyone elaborate on the different and non-default semantics? For example, what is the case when a word has "non-default compilation semantics" etc. 2021-11-21 05:14:27 Is it simply the "state" awareness and/or the presence of immediate flag that designates the compilation and execution semantics? Or is there some other mechanism (such as custom code word?) at play? 2021-11-21 10:51:59 in standard speak, the default compilation semantics are to append the execution semantics to the definition being compiled 2021-11-21 10:52:31 anything else is called non-default and in a typical forth amounts to the immediate flag being st 2021-11-21 10:52:32 set* 2021-11-21 11:16:20 http://sources.vsta.org/forthos/