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In Interpreter Words in TurboForth Kernal
Creates a named marker in the dictionary, such that executing the marker causes all words defined after it to be erased from the dictionary.
: tom ." tom" ; marker dick : harry ." harry" ; dick
At this point, tom still exists in the dictionary, but harry (and any other definitions following harry) has been removed from the dictionary.
The dictionary pointers HERE and H are updated, as are the low and high memory pointers FFAILM and FFAIHM.
HERE
H
FFAILM
FFAIHM
Cannot be used in a colon definition.