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On 3/07/2025 9:59 am, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> writes:
>> 1. Adding general locals is trivial. It takes just one single line of
>> Forth. 
> 
> I don't see how to do it in one line, and trivial is a subjective term.
> I'd say in any case that it's not too difficult, but one line seems
> overoptimistic.  Particularly, you need something like (LOCAL) in the
> VM.  The rest is just some extensions to the colon compiler.  Your
> mention of it taking 3-4 screens sounded within reason to me, and I
> don't consider that to be a lot of code.

Here's mine which is probably typical.  Users load it on demand - though
as yet I've not seen anyone do so.

https://pastebin.com/QCJHyJXK