Name

bracket-def:useful — immediate primitive

Synopsis

EXTENSIONS

[DEF] ( -- )();
p4:"bracket-def";

Description

immediatly set topmost CONTEXT voc to CURRENT compilation voc.

 : DEF' CURRENT @ CONTEXT ! ; IMMEDIATE

note that in PFE most basic vocabularies are immediate, so that you can use a sequence of

 FORTH ALSO  DEFINITIONS
 [DEF] : GET-FIND-3  [ANS] ['] FIND  [FIG] ['] FIND  [DEF] ['] FIND ;

where the first wordlist to be searched via the search order are [ANS] and [FIG] and FORTH (in this order) and which may or may not yield different flavours of the FIND routine (i.e. different XTs)