15.6.2.0930 CODE TOOLS EXT
( "<spaces>name" -- )
Skip leading space delimiters. Parse name delimited by a space. Create a definition for name, called a "code definition", with the execution semantics defined below.
Subsequent characters in the parse area typically represent source code in a programming language, usually some form of assembly language. Those characters are processed in an implementation-defined manner, generating the corresponding machine code. The process continues, refilling the input buffer as needed, until an implementation-defined ending sequence is processed.
name Execution:
( i * x -- j * x )
Execute the machine code sequence that was generated following CODE.
See:
Rationale:
Some Forth systems implement the assembly function by adding
an ASSEMBLER word list to the search order,
using the text interpreter to parse a postfix assembly
language with lexical characteristics similar to Forth source
code. Typically, in such systems, assembly ends when a word
END-CODE is interpreted.