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From: minforth@gmx.net (minforth)
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Subject: Re: quotations
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 14:35:23 +0000
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On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 10:36:04 +0000, Paul Rubin wrote:

> So are quotations worth it for Forth?  I don't know.  I see some uses
> for them but I'd tend to say that style is more common in GC'd
> languages.

Forth quotations are embedded anonymous functions. They
produce a single execution token on the stack. No GC required.

Forth closures are not standard. But generally spoken, closures
are single-function aka one-shot objects. So gforth-specific
closures offer several ways to free used memory after use.