Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth
Created on 2022-09-26T21:00:37-05:00
Rule of thumb: no more than two lines of code per definition.
Immediate words: executed mid-compile rather than compiled as a function call.
Postpone: sends code down the compiler pipe. When combined with Immediate you have the equivalent of a Lisp compiler macro.
Manipulating the return stack to implement far returns and call-with-current-continuation.