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.

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.