quick Forth question
Richard A. Smith
richard at laptop.org
Mon Jan 25 12:44:49 EST 2010
On 01/25/2010 12:05 PM, Paul Fox wrote:
>
> maybe something like:
> " ak" find-tag if 2drop ." Laptop already activated" cr then
>
> i'm pretty much a neophyte too, but i believe the commands that one
> types at the ok prompt that "feel" like command, with trailing args,
> should be avoided when scripting. i'm sure they can be used, but no
> doubt some special sauce is needed.
I worked it out.
: check-ak " add-tag ak 0" eval ;
ok ' check-ak catch if ." Laptop already activated" cr then
If you want to use it in a word then you need ['] rather than '
: do-me ['] check-ak catch if ." Laptop already activated" cr then
ok do-me
You can think of ' as the C & operator. ' gets the reference to the
word and that's what you have to give to catch so it can grab the exception.
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Richard A. Smith <richard at laptop.org>
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