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On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:09:57AM +0000, Steve morris wrote:
> Ralph Hempel wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to define a constant in a compiled word.
> > >
> > > : zzz 1 CONSTANT ONE ;
> > >
> > > I know its not right. It tries to compile "ONE" which is not
> > > what is wanted. What is the right way to say this?
> >
> > 1 CONSTANT ONE
> >
> > Recall that CONSTANT is a *defining* word, just like the ":"
>
> I still want to create a constant from within a definition. I
> have an initializing word that will calculate the value of
> the constant. For various reasons I can't do this calculation
> except within the runtime behavior of the word.
You might want to try
: zzz S" CONSTANT ONE" EVALUATE ;
1 zzz
> This is not critical. I have since replaced the constant
> with a variable that I define in advance and then set
> within my word, but then I have to use variable semantics
> instead of constant semantics to access the value, which is
> not what I wanted. I get around that by defining a new
I think VALUE can be used for that.
Ernst
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