Description

Append the Forth string body to the end of the string currently being concatenated as the last string in the string buffer, and update its count field. If there is no concatenating string, start one. An error is thrown if the size of the combined string would be larger than MAX_MCOUNT or if there is not enough room in string space even after a garbage collection.

S-CAT is most commonly used on external strings, not assumed to exist as mstrings. In contrast to CAT, garbage collection could invalidate a.str if it is a dynamic string in the string buffer. S-CAT can be used in that situation if garbage collection is turned off with $GC-OFF.

When there is a concatenating string, concatenation is the only basic string operation that can copy a string into the string buffer. <ansref>"s-cat"</ansref>