PRIVATE .. PRIVATIZE

[Craig Lindley]

Today was the first time I have tried to use these pForth words and as a result I have a question. Should the words  bracketed by PRIVATE{  and }PRIVATE and followed up with PRIVATIZE be visible when I execute words?

[Helmut Eller]

The definitions defined between PRIVATE{ and }PRIVATE are visible from
the point of definition until PRIVATIZE.

E.g.

: foo 1 ; private{ : foo 2 ; }private foo . privatize foo .

should print: 2 1

Helmut

[Craig Lindley]

Yes I understand that. My question was should the privitized words be visible when the pForth word "words" is executed?

[Phil Burk]

Privatize works by smudging the private words. That prevents them from being found by the compiler. I think that is a reasonable thing to do.

So the question is should WORDS display smudged words? Probably not. Seems like a bug.

Phil Burk

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