[OpenBIOS] Adding to a definition

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On 3/29/12, Programmingkid <programmingkidx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2012-Mar-22 00:09 , Programmingkid wrote:
>> > Is there a way to add words to the end of a definition? If my word is
>> > declared like this:
>> >
>> > : myword
>> > 	firstWord
>> > 	secondWord
>> > ;
>> >
>> > is there a way to append a word to the end of this word so it looks like
>> > this:
>> >
>> > : myword
>> > 	firstWord
>> > 	secondWord	
>> > 	thirdWord
>> > ;
>>
>> The usual way I'd do something like that if I had to patch a live system
>> would be as follows:
>>
>> ok : anotherWord secondWord thirdWord ;
>> ok patch anotherWord secondWord myword
>> ok
> The patch word is an empty definition in OpenBIOS. What is it suppose to do?

patch new-word old-word word-topatch ( -- ) Replace old-word with
new-word in word-to-patch.

Described in http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19641-01/802-3241/802-3241.pdf

There are also a couple of examples in Mitch Bradley's Forth and Open
Firmware Lessons:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons

-- 
Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

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