2022-01-16 11:04:43 <veltas      > jcass: I've read 8080 FIG, very good stuff, I really liked the FIG words
2022-01-16 11:05:50 <veltas      > I much prefer FIG's LEAVE over ANS LEAVE
2022-01-16 11:07:02 <veltas      > I've written a FORTH for the Z80, targetting the ZX Spectrum, and it was interesting seeing how you did some of it
2022-01-16 11:10:44 <veltas      > Like dave0 I am also new (been writing FORTH for a couple years now I think?)
2022-01-16 13:32:07 <remexre     > oh wow, just found punyforth
2022-01-16 13:32:49 <remexre     > not only have I been vaguely wanting a forth for the esp8266 (and unwilling to learn Xtensa asm myself)
2022-01-16 13:33:02 <remexre     > the quotations + combinators look really nice
2022-01-16 13:33:25 <remexre     > (apparently they're from Factor, but I haven't looked deeply into it recently)
2022-01-16 13:33:41 <remexre     > also a colon suffix for defining words (create: constant: etc) kinda makes sense
2022-01-16 13:35:42 <MrMobius    > hmm, just reading about quotations. how is that different from regular [ and ] ?
2022-01-16 13:36:53 <remexre     > I think a definition like : foo bar { baz } xyzzy ; compiles to like,
2022-01-16 13:38:09 <remexre     > foo-header | enter | bar  jmp(A)  B:  enter  baz  exit  A:  lit  B  xyzzy
2022-01-16 13:38:20 <remexre     > where A: and B: are labels?
2022-01-16 13:38:29 <remexre     > the diagram makes more sense in 2d lol
2022-01-16 13:38:39 <remexre     > and I forgot the final exit
2022-01-16 13:38:52 <remexre     > but like, you're compiling an new anonymous word in
2022-01-16 13:39:07 <remexre     > not interpreting any code while compiling
2022-01-16 13:44:07 <veltas      > MrMobius: Quotations are inline word definitions, [ and ] are for executing non-immediate words while compiling