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' — „tick“
: ' ( "<spaces>name" → xt) ;Skip leading space delimiters. Parse name delimited by a space. Find name and return xt, the execution token for name. An ambiguous condition exists if name is not found.
When interpreting, ' xyz EXECUTE is equivalent to xyz.
Return the execution token of the following name. This word is _not_ immediate and may not do what you expect in compile-mode. See ['] and '> - note that in FIG-forth the word of the same name had returned the PFA (not the CFA) and was immediate/smart, so beware when porting forth-code from FIG-forth to ANSI-forth.