Creating an Array: Difference between revisions

Forth has a variety of ways to allocate arrays of data, though it has no built-in array handling words, favoring pointer manipulation.

Static array of 200 cells, uninitialized:

create MyArray 200 cells allot

here MyArray - cell / constant MyArraySize

Static array containing the numbers 1 to 5

create MyArray 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ,

here MyArray - cell / constant MyArraySize

Dynamic array allocation:

0 value MyArray

200 cells allocate to MyArray

Dynamic array free:

MyArray free

0 to MyArray