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- Glossary
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- Stack notation: "<stack before> -- <stack after>". Rightmost is
- top of stack (TOS). For example, in "a b -- c d", b is TOS
- before, d is TOS after. "R:" means that the Return Stack is
- modified. "I:" prefix means "IMMEDIATE", that is, that this
- stack transformation is made at compile time.
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- Word references (wordref): When we say we have a "word
- reference", it's a pointer to a words *code link*. For example,
- the label "PLUS:" in this unit is a word reference. Why not
- refer to the beginning of the word struct? Because we actually
- seldom refer to the name and prev link, except during
- compilation, so defining "word reference" this way makes the
- code easier to understand.
- (cont.)
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