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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: Back & Forth - Co-routines
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:06:59 GMT
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minforth@gmx.net (minforth) writes:
>: foo
>    <: bar ." xyz" ;>
>  bar
>;
>
>I find this quite handy, since upvalues (locals within foo's
>context) are accessible from within bar.

Do you implement proper static scoping?  I.e., does your system pass
the man-or-boy test.  What about returning xts that reference outer
locals, e.g.:

: n+ ( n -- xt ) {: n :} [: n + ;] ;
5 n+ constant 5+
3 5+ execute .
7 5+ execute .

- anton
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