Name

dot-paren:core — immediate primitive

Synopsis

FORTH
.( ( [message<closeparen>] -- )(); 
 ;

Description

print the message to the screen while reading a file. This works too while compiling, so you can whatch the interpretation/compilation to go on. Some Forth-implementations won't even accept a ." message" outside compile-mode while the (current) pfe does.

dpANS .6.2.0200 - standard forth word