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| 2019-07-14 09:59:48  ruv  wrote:
| requestClarification - Ambiguous conditions
| see: https://forth-standard.org/standard/core/TO#contribution-95
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1\. Why does an ambiguous condition exist if `POSTPONE` or `[COMPILE]` are applied to `TO`, despite the compilation semantics of `TO` is well defined?

I can guess that in some Forth system implementations it was difficult to __correctly__ implement `POSTPONE TO` or `[COMPILE] TO` actions. But the committee felt that such implementations must be allowed in anyway. 


2\. In Forth-2012 another ambiguous condition was also mentioned: if `'` or `[']` are applied to `TO` (that was [not mentioned](http://lars.nocrew.org/dpans/dpans6.htm#6.2.2295) explicitly in Forth-94).

Is this ambiguity is a consequence of the specification, or does it have roots outside the specification?