- compile.v4: CASE OF ENDOF ENDCASE, as v3 (they nest; a word out of
place is a control structure mismatch); ['] and [LITERAL].
- quit.v4: S" and its run-time word; at the prompt the text is copied to
PAD.
- capsule/system.v4: WORDS and VLIST; FORGET (FORTH-79), which gives the
space back and will not remove a word below FENCE -- the capsule's own
words -- where v3's FORGET DUP succeeds.
- tests/test_host_quit.c: ten more transcripts of the v3 binary, and
nesting, the fence and the listing.
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capsule/words.v4: the stack, comparison, shift, double, mixed and string
words whose definitions DECOMPOSITION.md already gives and the mesh-node
tests execute, now in the host node's vocabulary:
2SWAP 2OVER 2ROT 2>R 2R> 2R@ 2@ 2! -! 0<> 0> <> <= >= U< U> ABS MAX MIN
WITHIN LSHIFT RSHIFT D- DABS D0= D0< D= D2* D2/ D< DMAX DMIN M+ M-
CMOVE> MOVE FILL ERASE BLANK -TRAILING COMPARE SEARCH SCAN SKIP
?TERMINAL TRUE FALSE INVERT NOP
- A shift count that is negative or as large as the cell is an error, as
in v3 (code 9, "Shift count out of range").
- tests/test_host_quit.c: 36 sessions from the prompt that are
transcripts of the v3 binary, and the cases where v4 keeps the standard
(MOVE in cells; M+ and M- with the double low cell first).
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Ruled 2026-10-04: guard all errors. The errors that set NODE-ERROR and
let the line run on now stop it at once, with a message.
- A store of a non-zero code to NODE-ERROR is a trap, a sixth kind of
fault: nothing after it executes, the return stack is emptied, and the
data stack is left as the word left it. Not attached, NODE-ERROR is
plain memory, as the tests below the prompt use it.
- The capsule's words store a code where they stored -1, and the prompt's
(RAISED) prints its message: Negative count, Not a number, Number too
long, Not a character, Dictionary full, Name missing, Control structure
mismatch, Control structures too deep.
- ' and COMPILE and [COMPILE] of a word that is not there say
UNKNOWN WORD: 'xxx', as the interpreter does.
- tests: the trap in test_exec.c; every message from the prompt, with the
rest of the line not run and the stack kept, in test_host_quit.c.
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Layer 5 of the compiler capsule. The host node is now started at QUIT and
left running: it prompts, reads a line from its console with QUERY,
interprets it, says " ok" or " ERROR", and goes round again.
- capsule/quit.v4: QUIT and ABORT (FORTH-79), ABORT" and (ABORT") as v3 has
them, ." and (.") (FORTH-79). Text is compiled as a counted string after
the call; the run-time word returns to the cell after it.
- INTERPRET prints v3's messages before abandoning a line:
UNKNOWN WORD: 'xxx' and xxx: compile-only.
- core.v4: CR SPACE COUNT TYPE, as DECOMPOSITION.md gives them.
- input.v4: WORD split so that (PARSE) can take text without skipping
leading delimiters (." " is an empty string); EXPECT keeps its place in
memory, so six values may wait on the stack while a line is typed.
- tests/test_host_quit.c: the node is fed characters and its output read;
16 sessions are transcripts of the v3 binary.
QUIT stops the line from inside any word and says nothing; v3's goes on
with the line and cannot be compiled. v3's compiled ABORT" crashes.
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Measured, compiling a DO loop left one return entry spare under
INTERPRET and a defining word called from inside another word
overflowed the nine-entry return stack (D-2); the prompt loop will take
one more.
C@ and C! shift without a loop. The code generator shifts each opcode
into the word being built, so nothing is placed by a counted shift, and
the address masks come from a table. The dictionary search, the
in-liner, the end of a loop and the making of a data word are each one
word reached by a jump.
Every kind of line now leaves at least three return entries spare while
it compiles; a word run from the interpreter has six; and CREATE ...
DOES> works from the prompt, from a word, and from a word that calls
that.
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WORD, the dictionary words and the code generator run underneath
whatever the user has on the stacks, which are ten and nine deep (D-2).
Measured, they used five to seven data cells of their own, leaving a
line about three. Each now keeps what it works on in its file's
scratch cells and has at most three cells on the data stack; , calls
nothing; and the longest chains of calls are shorter.
The public words of core.v4, input.v4 and dict.v4 get dictionary
headers. NUMBER is split so the interpreter can have a flag instead of
NODE-ERROR. The host-node tests share one memory map, host_map.h.
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The first layer of the compiler capsule, on the host node: TIB >IN SPAN
SOURCE BL EXPECT QUERY WORD ENCLOSE CONVERT NUMBER and the comment
words. The definitions are text, v4/capsule/core.v4 (the core words
they rest on) and v4/capsule/input.v4, assembled by the text assembler,
which can now read a file.
EXPECT, QUERY, WORD and ENCLOSE behave as v3's. CONVERT and NUMBER are
FORTH-79 (ruled 2026-10-04): any BASE, a double in the standard order,
and NUMBER returns a signed double or sets NODE-ERROR.
Executed at both cell widths against C and against values recorded from
the v3 binary.
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