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More rewording, mention ?do.

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@ -67,11 +67,10 @@ Forth, but most of what is written here should work elsewhere.
\ ------------------------------ Creating Words --------------------------------
\ Quite often one will want to write their own words.
\ The `:` word sets Forth into compile mode until it sees the `;` word.
: square ( n -- n ) dup * ; \ ok
\ The `:` word sets Forth into compile mode until it sees the `;` word.
\ We can view what a word does too:
see square \ dup * ; ok
\ -------------------------------- Conditionals --------------------------------
@ -101,19 +100,22 @@ myloop
\ Hello!
\ Hello! ok
\ `do` expects two numbers on the stack: the end number and the index number.
\ `do` expects two numbers on the stack: the end number and the start number.
\ We can get the value of the index as we loop with `i`:
: one-to-12 ( -- ) 12 0 do i . loop ; \ ok
one-to-12 \ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ok
: squares ( n -- ) 0 do i dup * . loop ; \ ok
10 squares \ 0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 ok
\ `?do` works similarly, except it will skip the loop if the end and start
\ numbers are equal.
: squares ( n -- ) 0 ?do i dup * . loop ; \ ok
10 squares \ 0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 ok
\ Change the "step" with `+loop`:
: threes ( n n -- ) do i . 3 +loop ; \ ok
: threes ( n n -- ) ?do i . 3 +loop ; \ ok
15 0 threes \ 0 3 6 9 12 ok
\ Finally, while loops with `begin` <stuff to do> <flag> `unil`:
\ Indefinite loops with `begin` <stuff to do> <flag> `unil`:
: death ( -- ) begin ." Are we there yet?" 0 until ; \ ok
\ ---------------------------- Variables and Memory ----------------------------
@ -195,9 +197,15 @@ myfloatingvar f@ f. \ 4.4 ok
\ specifically for that:
clearstack
\ Clear the screen:
page
\ Loading Forth files:
\ s" forthfile.fs" included
\ You can list every word that's in Forth's dictionary (but it's a huge list!):
\ words
\ Exiting Gforth:
\ bye