On Sunday 30 November 2008 18:19:44 Alex Chapman wrote:
> And then we have words. These are also symbols, but when executed they do
> something arbitrary. This could include pushing their own symbol
Yup. In fact, here's something which I found surprising the first time I ran
into it:
: a \ a ;
\ a symbol? ---> t
I.e. even though you don't use SYMBOL: to define 'a', it's still a symbol. :-)
Ed
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