Re: Forth200x: Serious design flaw in deferred words proposal.

On Aug 18, 3:37 pm, hel...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
That's all and I dont understand completely the confusion about XTs -
it should be clear that they are not in every case simple code
pointers.

Whether or not they are code pointers has nothing to do with anything.
The point is that it is an abuse of the term to talk about a fully
qualified XT as distinct from a partially qualified XT. Its like being
fully pregnant as distinct from being partially pregnant.

Call the actual XT an XT ... that is, the thing that identifies the
execution semantics of any definition that can be found ... and call
the other one ... whether it is the superset or the subset of the
capabilities is neither here nor there ... something else.

.

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