Re: problem with creating word

[Robert Sander]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 09:12:06AM +0200, Anton Ertl wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:40:24AM +0200, Robert Sander wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I want to create a word and store a generated id and a string in the
> > datafield.
> > 
> > I have the following words:
> > 
> > variable ma#
> > 68 ma# ! \ just to find the value in the memoy
> > 
> > : ma: ( -- )
> >         1 ma# +! \ increment ma# - is there a better way?
> >         create ma# @ , \ reserve space and store the value of ma#
> >         parse-name 2, \ get next word and store addr and length
> >         does> ( -- u) @ ;
> > 
> > 
> > With the following definition:
> > 
> > ma: robert rs
> ...
> > Now I want to see the string "rs":
> > 
> > ' robert >body 1 cells + 2@ type  c ok
> > 
> > but this does not work.
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> 
> PARSE-NAME just points into the input buffer.  The result is only
> valid until the text interpreter switches to the next line.  You can
> make the name permanent (until the end of the session) with SAVE-MEM (
> c-addr1 u -- c-addr2 u ), i.e.:
> 
> : ma: ( -- )
>         1 ma# +! \ increment ma# - is there a better way?
>         create ma# @ , \ reserve space and store the value of ma#
>         parse-name save-mem 2, \ get next word and store addr and length
>         does> ( -- u) @ ;
> 
> - anton

It works. Thanks a lot! I spent several hours searching in the wrong
place...