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Subject: Re: Avoid treating the stack as an array [Re: "Back & Forth" is back!]
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:37:50 +0000
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On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:19:25 +0000, Stephen Pelc wrote:
> Local buffers are remarkably useful.

True. In addition, to pass the address of normal locals
to other words or to external library functions
(pass-by-reference instead of pass-by-value)
I borrowed the address operator & from C, like in:

: FUNC { f: a b -- badr f: aval }
  ... a  \ push value of a to fp-stack
  ... &b \ push address of b to stack
  ... ;