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1. Kartik Agaram (akkartik@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Apr-2018 13:27:35 EDT Kartik Agaram

   Live-blogging @vertigo's great Forth video from 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrE2ZGe-rs

   1. I had no idea Forth was hyperstatic! Does that mean that when you define a word, other words it uses get their definitions automatically inlined at definition time?

   2. 'gulp (https://bitbucket.org/kc5tja/unsuitable/src/8739e927fee7102757d9ceffdb57899367481d4b/share/unsuitable/slurp.fs#slurp.fs-4) assumes that 'allot' has no free list (consecutive allocations are contiguous). Really nice property! Is there also usually an allocator with a free list? How do the two interact? Pointers appreciated.

   1. Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Apr-2018 13:30:02 EDT Vertigo

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      @akkartik Answers:

      (1) No. Hyperstatic means that when you RE-define a word, all PREVIOUS definitions retain their ORIGINAL meaning.

      (2) ALLOT cannot function reliably in a free-list environment, so it's often used exclusively for "the dictionary", a contiguously allocated block of memory that holds the bodies of definitions. Free-list allocators did not become standardized until ANS Forth 94, where the words ALLOCATE, FREE, and RESIZE were introduced.