Yes, I know, this was just a minimal example

2014-12-16 17:59 GMT+01:00 John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com>:
> Also, I'm not sure why you need a parsing word for that, you can just:
>
> IN: foo
>
> SYMBOL: foo
>
> IN: bar
>
> foo [ "hello" ] initialize
>
> ... or
>
> "hello" foo set-global
>
> the first will initialize if not ``f``, the second will always set.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Andrea Ferretti <ferrettiand...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I am trying to define some syntax words that should have effect on
>> a global (or dynamic) variable. What I am trying to achieve is
>> something similar to how the LIBRARY: word affects later occurrences
>> of FUNCTION:
>>
>> The problem is, it does not seem to work. The simplest example I can
>> make is up the following.
>>
>> In package foo
>>
>>     USING: kernel lexer namespaces ;
>>     IN: foo
>>
>>     SYMBOL: foo
>>
>>     SYNTAX: FOO: scan-token foo set ;
>>
>> Then in package bar
>>
>>     USING: namespaces foo prettyprint ;
>>     IN: bar
>>
>>     FOO: hello
>>
>>     foo get .
>>
>>
>> This executes the top level form `foo get .` but prints f instead of
>> "hello". The same happens if I use run-file directly. If, instead, I
>> make the same declaration
>>
>>     FOO: hello
>>
>> in the listener, I can check that foo is modified.
>>
>> Is there a way to make this work? I could also avoi the variable, but
>> while parsing I do not have access to the stack, and so I do not know
>> how to pass any information among parsing words.
>>
>>
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