Handbook
Glossary
Invertible quotations
The inverse vocab defines a way to 'undo' quotations, and builds a pattern matching framework on that basis. A quotation can be inverted by reversing it and inverting each word. To define the inverse for particular word, use
define-inverse
( word quot -- )
define-pop-inverse
( word n quot -- )
To build an inverse quotation
[undo]
( quot -- undo )
To use the inverse quotation for pattern matching
undo
( quot -- quot )
matches?
( quot -- quot' )
switch
( quot-alist -- quot )