Immediate/Compile Time Execution for

[Mark Wieder]

Kevin-

I'm not sure where you're trying to go with this thread, but
Transcript by its nature extends the language as you go along. For
example, the Forth statement

: beeps 0 do beep loop ;

would be coded in Transcript as

on dots howMany
  repeat with howMany
    beep
  end repeat
end dots

and then you would use it the same way:
4 beeps

so you're actually building extensions to the language as you go
along, much the same way that you extend the Forth dictionary. Not
much support for vocabulary switching, though, if you're used to that.

There's no explicit support for objects, although there's been a lot
of discussion about it. You can always do aggregate objects, of
course, but there's no subclassing.

I think my development time in Transcript is about equal to that in
Forth and there's a much richer set of existing functions and
operators to draw from. If you're looking for support for runtime
[compile] statements, though, you're probably better off looking
through the Transcript dictionary and finding a different way of doing
things instead of thinking in Forth.

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net