&NAME is the address of a word as a literal; CONST+N is a loader
constant plus an offset as one literal, so that a capsule file can
address the cells of its scratch area without adding at run time.
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'header NAME [flags]' in front of a word gives it a dictionary entry in
the layout capsule/dict.v4 uses, linked to the header before it, so the
words of a capsule are in the dictionary as soon as it is assembled.
The name is taken as it stands (it may be ( or + or ;) and the
assembler's own name for the code may differ.
Tested in the assembler's own test, and by FIND and the field words
running over assembler-made entries beside ones (HEADER) made.
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The first layer of the compiler capsule, on the host node: TIB >IN SPAN
SOURCE BL EXPECT QUERY WORD ENCLOSE CONVERT NUMBER and the comment
words. The definitions are text, v4/capsule/core.v4 (the core words
they rest on) and v4/capsule/input.v4, assembled by the text assembler,
which can now read a file.
EXPECT, QUERY, WORD and ENCLOSE behave as v3's. CONVERT and NUMBER are
FORTH-79 (ruled 2026-10-04): any BASE, a double in the standard order,
and NUMBER returns a signed double or sets NODE-ERROR.
Executed at both cell widths against C and against values recorded from
the v3 binary.
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Test support, beside the slot packer: reads definitions in the notation
DECOMPOSITION.md uses -- words, opcodes, literals, constants, labels,
branches, FOR NEXT and FOR UNEXT, in-line macros, comments -- and lays
them down through the slot packer, so they no longer have to be retyped
opcode by opcode in C.
Tested by assembling SWAP, UM/MOD, C@ and C! both ways on two nodes and
comparing memory word for word, by running what is assembled, and on
every error it reports, each with its line number.
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