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<b>Ficl Release Notes</b>
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<h2><a NAME="whatsnew">Version 3.03</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>
Bugfix: Compiled floating-point numbers now work. (Floats in compiled code were simply broken in 3.02 and some previous version.)
</li>
<li>
Newly implemented CORE EXT words: <code>CASE</code>, <code>OF</code>, <code>ENDOF</code>, and <code>ENDCASE</code>. Also added <code>FALLTHROUGH</code>, which works like <code>ENDOF</code> but jumps to the instruction just after the next <code>OF</code>.
</li>
<li>
New words: <code>random</code>, <code>seed-random</code>, and <code>(lookup-method)</code>
</li>
<li>
Bugfix: <code>included</code> never closed its file.
</li>
<li>
Bugfix: <code>include</code> was not <code>IMMEDIATE</code>.
</li>
<li>
Bugfix: John-Hopkins locals syntax now accepts <code>|</code> and <code>--</code> in the comment (between the first <code>--</code> and the <code>}</code>.)
</li>
<li>
Un-hid the OO words <code>parse-method</code>, <code>lookup-method</code>, and <code>find-method-xt</code>, as there are perfectly legitimate reasons why you might want to use them.
</li>
<li>
Changed the prefix version of <code>.(</code> to be <code>IMMEDIATE</code> too.
</li>
<li>
Bugfix: Changed <code>vmGetWord0()</code> to make Purify happier. The resulting code is no slower, no larger, and slightly more robust.
</li>
<li>
Got rid of the <code>/objects/common/ficl</code> nonsense in the VC++ project. Build-time files are now stored their default places, in relative directories called <code>debug</code> and <code>release</code>.
</li>
<li>
Fixed comment in Python softcore builder.
</li>
<li>
Put the <b>doc</b> directory back in to the distribution. (It was missing from 3.02... where'd it go?)
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Version 3.02</h2>
<ul>
<li>
Added support for <code>nEnvCells</code> (number of environment cells) to <code>FICL_SYSTEM_INFO</code>.
</li>
<li>
Consolidated <code>context</code> and <code>pExtend</code> pointers of <code>FICL_SYSTEM</code>—VM's <code>pExtend</code> pointer is initialized from the copy in <code>FICL_SYSTEM</code> upon VM creation.
</li>
<li>
Added <code>ficl-robust</code> environment variable.
</li>
<li>
Added <code>FW_ISOBJECT</code> word type.
</li>
<li>
Bugfix: <code>environment?</code> was ignoring the length of the supplied string.
</li>
<li>
Portability cleanup in fileaccess.c.
</li>
<li>
Bugfix in <code>ficlParsePrefix</code>: if the prefix dictionary isn't in the wordlist, the word being examined cannot be a prefix, so return failure.
</li>
<li>
<code>SEE</code> improvements: <code>SEE</code> (and consequently <code>DEBUG</code>) have improved source listings with instruction offsets.
</li>
<li>
It's turned off with the preprocessor, but we have the beginnings of a switch-threaded implementation of the inner loop.
</li>
<li>
Added <code>objectify</code> and <code>?object</code> for use by OO infrastructure.
</li>
<li>
<code>my=[</code> detects object members (using <code>?object</code>) and assumes all other members leave class unchanged.
</li>
<li>
Removed <code>MEMORY-EXT</code> environment variable (there is no such wordset).
</li>
<li>
Ficlwin changes:
<ul>
<li>
Ficlwin character handling is more robust
</li>
<li>
Ficlwin uses multi-system constructs (see ficlthread.c)
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Documentation changes:
<ul>
<li>
Corrected various bugs in docs.
</li>
<li>
Added ficl-ized version of JV Noble's Forth Primer
</li>
<li>
Ficl OO tutorial expanded and revised. Thanks to David McNab for his demo and suggestions.
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Version 3.01</h2>
<ul>
<li>
Major contribs by Larry Hastings (larry@hastings.org):
<ul>
<li>
FILE wordset (fileaccess.c)
</li>
<li>
ficlEvaluate wrapper for ficlExec
</li>
<li>
ficlInitSystemEx makes it possible to bind selectable properties to VMs at create time
</li>
<li>
Python version of softcore builder ficl/softwords/softcore.py
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Environment contains ficl-version (double)
</li>
<li>
?number handles trailing decimal point per DOUBLE wordset spec
</li>
<li>
Fixed broken .env (thanks to Leonid Rosin for spotting this goof)
</li>
<li>
Fixed broken floating point words that depended on evaluation order of stack pops.
</li>
<li>
env-constant
</li>
<li>
env-2constant
</li>
<li>
dictHashSummary is now commented out unless FICL_WANT_FLOAT (thanks to Leonid Rosin again)
</li>
<li>
Thanks to David McNab for pointing out that .( should be IMMEDIATE. Now it is.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Version 3.00a</h2>
<ul>
<li>
Fixed broken oo.fr by commenting out vcall stuff using FICL_WANT_VCALL. Vcall is still broken.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Version 3.00</h2>
<ul>
<li>
Added pSys parameter to most ficlXXXX functions for multiple system support. Affected functions:
<ul>
<li>dictLookupLoc renamed to ficlLookupLoc after addition of pSys param</li>
<li>ficlInitSystem returns a FICL_SYSTEM*</li>
<li>ficlTermSystem</li>
<li>ficlNewVM</li>
<li>ficlLookup</li>
<li>ficlGetDict</li>
<li>ficlGetEnv</li>
<li>ficlSetEnv</li>
<li>ficlSetEnvD</li>
<li>ficlGetLoc</li>
<li>ficlBuild</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Fixed off-by-one bug in ficlParsePrefix</li>
<li>Ficl parse-steps now work correctly - mods to interpret()</li>
<li>Made tools.c:isAFiclWord more selective</li>
<li>Tweaked makefiles and code to make gcc happy under linux</li>
<li>Vetted all instances of LVALUEtoCELL to make sure they're working on CELL sized operands
(for 64 bit compatibility)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Version 2.06</h2>
<ul>
<li>Debugger changes:</li>
<ul>
<li>New debugger command "x" to execute the rest of the command line as ficl</li>
<li>New debugger command "l" lists the source of the innermost word being debugged</li>
<li>If you attempt to debug a primitive, it gets executed rather than doing nothing</li>
<li><code>R.S</code> displays the stack contents symbolically</li>
<li>Debugger now operates correctly under ficlwin, although ficlwin's key handling leaves a lot to be desired. </li>
<li><code>SEE</code> listing enhanced for use with the debugger</li>
</ul>
<li>Added Guy Carver's changes to oo.fr for VTABLE support</li>
<li><code>float.c</code> words f> and >f to move floats to and from the param stack, analogous to >r and r></li>
<li><code>LOOKUP</code> - Surrogate precompiled parse step for ficlParseWord (this step is hard
coded in <code>INTERPRET</code>)</li>
<li>License text at top of source files changed from LGPL to BSD by request</li>
<li>Win32 console version now handles exceptions more gracefully rather than crashing - uses win32
structured exception handling.</li>
<li>Fixed BASE bug from 2.05 (was returning the value rather than the address) </li>
<li>Fixed ALLOT bug - feeds address units to dictCheck, which expects Cells. Changed dictCheck
to expect AU. </li>
<li>Float stack display word renamed to f.s from .f to be consistent with r.s and .s</li>
</ul>
<h2>Version 2.05</h2>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>HTML documentation extensively revised</li>
<li>Incorporated Alpha (64 bit) patches from the freeBSD team.</li>
<li>Split SEARCH and SEARCH EXT words from words.c to search.c</li>
<li><a href="ficl_loc.html">2LOCALS</a> defined in <a href="ficl_loc.html#jhlocal">Johns Hopkins local syntax</a> now lose the first '2:' in their names.</li>
<li>Simple step <a href="ficl_debug.html">debugger</a> (see tools.c)</li>
<li>The text interpreter is now extensible - this is accomplished through the use
of <code>ficlAddParseStep()</code>. <code>FICL_MAX_PARSE_STEPS</code> limits the number of parse steps
(default: 8). You can write a precompiled parse step (see <code>ficlParseNumber</code>) and
append it to the chain, or you can write one in ficl and use <code>ADD-PARSE-STEP</code>
to append it. Default parse steps are initialized in <code>ficlInitSystem</code>. You can list
the parse steps with <code>parse-order ( -- )</code>.</li>
<li>There is now a FICL_SYSTEM structure. This is a transitional release - version 3.0
will alter several API prototypes to take this as a parameter, allowing multiple
systems per process (and therefore multiple dictionaries). For those who use ficl
under a virtual memory O/S like Linux or Win NT, you can just create multiple ficl
processes (not threads) instead and save youself the wait.</li>
<li>Fixes for improved command line operation in testmain.c (Larry Hastings)</li>
<li>Numerous extensions to OO facility, including a new allot methods, ability
to catch method invocations (thanks to Daniel Sobral again)</li>
<li>Incorporated Alpha (64 bit) patches contributed by Daniel Sobral and the freeBSD team
Ficl is now 64 bit friendly! UNS32 is now FICL_UNS.</li>
<li>Split SEARCH and SEARCH EXT words from words.c to search.c</li>
<li>ABORT" now complies with the ANS (-2 THROWs)</li>
<li>Floating point support contributed by Guy Carver (Enable FICL_WANT_FLOAT in sysdep.h).</li>
<li>Win32 vtable model for objects (Guy Carver)</li>
<li>Win32 dll load/call suport (Larry Hastings)</li>
<li>Prefix support (Larry Hastings) (prefix.c prefix.fr FICL_EXTENDED_PREFIX) makes it
easy to extend the parser to recignize prefixes like 0x and act on them. Use show-prefixes
to see what's defined.</li>
<li>Cleaned up initialization sequence so that it's all in ficlInitSystem, and so that
a VM can be created successfully before the dictionary is created</li>
</ul>
<h3>
Bug fixes</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans9.htm#9.6.2.0680">ABORT"</a>
now works correctly (I promise!)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans6.htm#6.2.2125">REFILL</a> works
better</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans6.htm#6.1.0710">ALLOT</a>'s
use of dictCheck corrected (finally)</li>
</ul>
<h3>
New words</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans6.htm#6.2.0415">2r@</a> <a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans6.htm#6.2.0410">2r></a> <a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans6.htm#6.2.0340">2>r</a>
(CORE EXT)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans8.htm#8.6.1.0440">2VARIABLE</a>
(DOUBLE)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans16.htm#16.6.2.1985">ORDER</a>
now lists wordlists by name</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans15.htm#15.6.1.0220">.S</a> now
displays all stack entries on one line, like a stack comment</li>
<li>
<a href="ficl.html#wid-get-name"><tt>wid-get-name</tt> </a>
given a wid, returns the address and count of its name. If no name, count
is 0</li>
<li>
<tt><a href="ficl.html#wid-set-name">wid-set-name</a></tt>
set optional wid name pointer to the \0 terminated string address specified.</li>
<li>
<tt><a href="ficl.html#ficlwordlist">ficl-named-wordlist</a></tt> creates
a ficl-wordlist and names it. This is now used in <tt>vocabulary</tt> and
<tt><a href="ficl.html#ficlvocabulary">ficl-vocabulary</a></tt> </li>
<li>
<tt><a href="ficl.html#last-word">last-word</a></tt> returns the
xt of the word being defined or most recently defined.</li>
<li>
<tt><a href="ficl.html#qfetch">q@</a></tt> and <tt><a href="ficl.html#qbang">q!</a></tt>
operate on quadbyte quantities for 64 bit friendliness</li>
</ul>
<h3>
New OO stuff</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<tt>ALLOT (class method)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt>ALLOT-ARRAY (class method)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt>METHOD</tt> define method names globally</li>
<li>
<tt>MY=></tt> early bind a method call to "this" class</li>
<li>
<tt>MY=[ ]</tt> early bind a string of method calls to "this" class and
obj members</li>
<li>
<tt>C-></tt> late bind method invocation with CATCH</li>
<li>
Metaclass method <tt>resume-class</tt> and instance word <tt>suspend-class</tt>
create mutually referring classes. Example in string.fr</li>
<li>
Early binding words are now in the instance-vars wordlist, not visible
unless defining a class.</li>
<li>Support for refs to classes with VTABLE methods (contributed by Guy Carver). Guy writes:
<p>
My next favorite change is a set of VCALL words that allow me
to call C++ class virtual methods from my forth classes. This
is accomplished by interfacing with the VTABLE of the class. The
class instance currently must be created on the C++ side.
C++ places methods in the VTABLE in order of declaration in the
header file. To use this in FICL one only needs to ensure
that the VCALL: declerations occur in the same order. I use this
quite a bit to interface with the C++ classes. When I need access
to a method I make sure it is virtual (Even if it ultimately will
not be). I use Visual C++ 6.0 and have not tested this under
any other compiler but I believe VTABLE implementation is standard.
</p><p>
Here is an example of how to use VCALL:
</p>
<b>C++ class declaration</b>
<pre>
class myclass
{
public:
myclass();
virtual ~myclass();
virtual void Test( int iParam1 );
virtual int Test( int iParam1, char cParam2 );
virtual float Test();
};
</pre>
<b>ficl class declaration</b>
<pre>
object subclass myfclass hasvtable \ hasvtable adds 4 to the offset to
\ accommodate for the VTABLE pointer.
0 VCALL: Destructor() \ VCALL: ( ParamCount -<MethodName>- )
1 VCALL: Test(int) \ Test takes 1 int parameter.
2 VCALLR: iTest(int,char) \ iTest takes 2 parameters and returns an int.
0 VCALLF: fTest() \ fTest takes no parameters and returns a float.
end-class
MyCAddress \ Primitive to return a pointer to a "myclass" instance.
myfclass -> ref dude \ This makes the MyCAddress pointer a myfclass
\ instance with the name "dude".
1234 dude -> Test(int) \ Calls the virtual method Test.
1234 1 dude -> iTest(int,char) . \ Calls iTest and emits the returned int.
dude -> fTest() f. \ Calls fTest and emits the returned float.
</pre>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>
Version 2.04</h2>
<h3>
ficlwin</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Catches exceptions thrown by VM in ficlThread (0 @ for example) rather
than passing them off to the OS. </li>
</ul>
<h3>
ficl bugs vanquished</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Fixed leading delimiter bugs in s" ." .( and ( (reported by Reuben Thomas)</li>
<li>
Makefile tabs restored (thanks to Michael Somos)</li>
<li>
ABORT" now throws -2 per the DPANS (thanks to Daniel Sobral for sharp eyes
again) </li>
<li>
ficlExec does not print the prompt string unless (source-id == 0)</li>
<li>
Various fixes contributed by the FreeBSD team.</li>
</ul>
<h3>
ficl enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Words.c: modified ficlCatch to use vmExecute and vmInnerLoop (request of
Daniel Sobral) Added vmPop and vmPush functions (by request of Lars Krueger
) in vm.c These are shortcuts to the param stack. (Use LVALUEtoCELL to
get things into CELL form) </li>
<li>
Added function vmGetStringEx with a flag to specify whether or not to skip
lead delimiters</li>
<li>
Added non-std word: number?</li>
<li>
Added CORE EXT word AGAIN (by request of Reuben Thomas) </li>
<li>
Added double cell local (2local) support</li>
<li>
Augmented Johns Hopkins local syntax so that locals whose names begin with
char 2 are treated as 2locals (OK - it's goofy, but handy for OOP)</li>
<li>
C-string class revised and enhanced - now dynamically sized</li>
<li>
C-hashstring class derived from c-string computes hashcode too.</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<h2>
Version 2.03</h2>
This is the first version of Ficl that includes contributed code. Thanks
especially to Daniel Sobral, Michael Gauland for contributions and bug
finding.
<p>New words
<ul>
<li>
<tt><a href="#clock">clock</a>
(FICL)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="#clockspersec">clocks/sec</a>
(FICL)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans8.htm#8.6.1.1230">dnegate</a>
(DOUBLE)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans10.htm#10.6.2.1905">ms</a>
(FACILITY EXT - replaces MSEC <i>ficlWin only</i>)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans9.htm#9.6.1.2275">throw</a>
(EXCEPTION)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans9.htm#9.6.1.0875">catch</a>
(EXCEPTION)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans14.htm#14.6.1.0707">allocate</a>
(MEMORY)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans14.htm#14.6.1.1605">free</a>
(MEMORY)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans14.htm#14.6.1.2145">resize</a>
(MEMORY)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans6.htm#6.2.2440">within</a>
(CORE EXT)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="#alloc">alloc</a>
(class method)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="#allocarray">alloc-array</a>
(class method)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="#oofree">free</a>
(class method)</tt></li>
</ul>
Bugs Fixed
<ul>
<li>
Bug fix in isNumber(): used to treat chars between 'Z' and 'a' as valid
in base 10... (harmless, but weird)</li>
<li>
ficlExec pushes the <i>ip</i> and <tt>interpret</tt>s at the right times
so that nested calls to ficlExec behave the way you'd expect them to.</li>
<li>
<tt>evaluate</tt> respects count parameter, and also passes exceptional
return conditions back out to the calling instance of ficlExec.</li>
<li>
VM_QUIT now clears the locals dictionary in ficlExec.</li>
</ul>
Ficlwin Enhancements
<ul>
<li>
File Menu: recent file list and Open now load files.</li>
<li>
Text ouput function is now faster through use of string caching. Cache
flushes at the end of each line and each time ficlExec returns.</li>
<li>
Edit/paste now behaves more reasonably for text. File/open loads the specified
file.</li>
<li>
Registry entries specify dictionary and stack sizes, default window placement,
and whether or not to create a splitter for multiple VMs. See HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/CodeLab/ficlwin/Settings</li>
</ul>
Ficl Enhancements
<ul>
<li>
This version includes changes to make it <b>64 bit friendly</b>. This unfortunately
meant that I had to tweak some core data types and structures. I've tried
to make this transparent to 32 bit code, but a couple of things got renamed.
INT64 is now DPINT. UNS64 is now DPUNS. FICL_INT and FICL_UNS are synonyms
for INT32 and UNS32 in 32 bit versions, but a are obsolescent. Please use
the new data types instead. Typed stack operations on INT32 and UNS32 have
been renamed because they operate on CELL scalar types, which are 64 bits
wide on 64 bit systems. Added BITS_PER_CELL, which has legal values of
32 or 64. Default is 32.</li>
<li>
ficl.c: Added ficlExecXT() - executes an xt completely before returning,
passing back any exception codes generated in the process. Normal exit
code is VM_INNEREXIT.</li>
<li>
ficl.c: Added ficlExecC() to operate on counted strings as opposed to zero
terminated ones.</li>
<li>
ficlExec pushes ip and executes interpret at the right times so that nested
calls to ficlExec behave the way you'd expect them to.</li>
<li>
ficlSetStackSize() allows specification of stack size at run-time (affects
subsequent invocations of ficlNewVM()).</li>
<li>
vm.c: vmThrow() checks for (pVM->pState != NULL) before longjmping it.
vmCreate nulls this pointer initially. </li>
<li>
EXCEPTION wordset contributed by Daniel Sobral of FreeBSD</li>
<li>
MEMORY-ALLOC wordset contributed by Daniel Sobral, too. Added class methods
<tt>alloc</tt>
and <tt>alloc-array</tt> in softwords/oo.fr to allocate objects from the
heap.</li>
<li>
Control structure match check upgraded (thanks to Daniel Sobral for this
suggestion). Control structure mismatches are now errors, not warnings,
since the check accepts all syntactally legal constructs.</li>
<li>
Added vmInnerLoop() to vm.h. This function/macro factors the inner
interpreter out of ficlExec so it can be used in other places. Function/macro
behavior is conditioned on INLINE_INNER_LOOP in sysdep.h. Default: 1 unless
_DEBUG is set. In part, this is because VC++ 5 goes apoplectic when trying
to compile it as a function. See </li>
<br>comments in vm.c
<li>
EVALUATE respects the count parameter, and also passes exceptional return
conditions back out to the calling instance of ficlExec.</li>
<li>
VM_QUIT clears locals dictionary in ficlExec()</li>
<li>
Added Michael Gauland's ficlLongMul and ficlLongDiv and support routines
to math64.c and .h. These routines are coded in C, and are compiled only
if PORTABLE_LONGMULDIV == 1 (default is 0).</li>
<li>
Added definition of ficlRealloc to sysdep.c (needed for memory allocation
wordset). If your target OS supports realloc(), you'll probably want to
redefine ficlRealloc in those terms. The default version does ficlFree
followed by ficlMalloc.</li>
<li>
testmain.c: Changed gets() in testmain to fgets() to appease the security
gods.</li>
<li>
testmain: <tt>msec</tt> renamed to <tt><a href="#ficlms">ms</a></tt> in
line with the ANS</li>
<li>
softcore.pl now removes comments & spaces at the start and end of lines.
As a result: sizeof (softWords) == 7663 bytes (used to be 20000)
and consumes 11384 bytes of dictionary when compiled</li>
<li>
Deleted license paste-o in readme.txt (oops).</li>
</ul>
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<tr>
<td>
<h2>
Version 2.02</h2>
New words
<ul>
<li>
<tt><a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans6.htm#6.2.1850">marker</a>
(CORE EXT)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans15.htm#15.6.2.1580">forget</a>
(TOOLS EXT)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="#ficlforgetwid">forget-wid</a>
(FICL)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="#ficlwordlist">ficl-wordlist</a> (FICL)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="#ficlvocabulary">ficl-vocabulary</a> (FICL)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="#ficlhide">hide</a>
(FICL)</tt></li>
<li>
<tt><a href="#ficlhidden">hidden</a>
(FICL)</tt></li>
<li>
<a href="#jhlocal">Johns Hopkins local variable syntax</a> (as best I can
determine)</li>
</ul>
Bugs Fixed
<ul>
<li>
<tt>forget</tt> now adjusts the dictionary pointer to remove the name of
the word being forgotten (name chars come before the word header in ficl's
dictionary)</li>
<li>
<tt>:noname</tt> used to push the colon control marker and its execution
token in the wrong order</li>
<li>
<tt>source-id</tt> now behaves correctly when loading a file.</li>
<li>
<tt>refill</tt> returns zero at EOF (Win32 load). Win32 <tt><a href="#ficlload">load</a></tt>
command continues to be misnamed. Really ought to be called <tt>included</tt>,
but does not exactly conform to that spec either (because <tt>included</tt>
expects a string signature on the stack, while Ficl's <tt><a href="#ficlload">load</a></tt>
expects a filename upon invocation). The "real" <tt>LOAD</tt> is a <tt>BLOCK</tt>
word.</li>
</ul>
Enhancements (IMHO)
<ul>
<li>
dictUnsmudge no longer links anonymous definitions into the dictionary</li>
<li>
<tt>oop</tt> is no longer the default compile wordlist at startup, nor
is it in the search order. Execute <b><tt>also oop definitions</tt></b>
to use Ficl OOP.</li>
<li>
Revised oo.fr extensively to make more use of early binding</li>
<li>
Added <tt>meta</tt> - a constant that pushes the address of metaclass.
See oo.fr for examples of use.</li>
<li>
Added classes: <tt>c-ptr c-bytePtr c-2bytePtr c-cellPtr
</tt>These
classes model pointers to non-object data, but each knows the size of its
referent.</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<h2>
Version 2.01</h2>
<ul>
<li>
Bug fix: <tt>(local)</tt> used to leave a value on the stack between the
first and last locals declared. This value is now stored in a static.</li>
<li>
Added new local syntax with parameter re-ordering. <a href="#newlocal">See
description below</a>. (No longer compiled in version 2.02, in favor of
the Johns Hopkins syntax)</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<h2>
Version 2.0</h2>
<ul>
<li>
New ANS Forth words: <tt>TOOLS</tt> and part of <tt>TOOLS EXT, SEARCH</tt>
and <tt>SEARCH EXT, LOCALS</tt> and <tt>LOCALS EXT</tt> word sets, additional
words from <tt>CORE EXT, DOUBLE</tt>, and <tt>STRING</tt>. (See the function
ficlCompileCore in words.c for an alphabetical list by word set).</li>
<li>
Simple <tt>USER</tt> variable support - a user variable is a virtual machine
instance variable. User variables behave as <tt>VARIABLE</tt>s in all other
respects.</li>
<li>
Object oriented syntax extensions (see below)</li>
<li>
Optional stack underflow and overflow checking in many CORE words (enabled
when FICL_ROBUST >= 2)</li>
<li>
Various bug fixes</li>
</ul>
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