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Subject: Re: VALUE and TO implementation
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albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:
> Numbers (also denotations, such as strings)  must be smart.

I've thought of having non-smart numbers in a small Forth.  Instead of
123 you would say # 123 or something similar, where # is a parsing word
that emits LIT and the number.  I remember that the eForth metacompiler
does something like that, to handle the case where the host and target
processors have differing number representations (e.g. word sizes).