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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Parsing timestamps?
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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.