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Const-does>

A frequent use of create...does> is for transferring some values from definition-time to run-time. Gforth supports this use with

doc-const-does>

A typical use of this word is:

: curry+ ( n1 "name" -- )
1 0 CONST-DOES> ( n2 -- n1+n2 )
    + ;

3 curry+ 3+

Here the 1 0 means that 1 cell and 0 floats are transferred from definition to run-time.

The advantages of using const-does> are:

• You don't have to deal with storing and retrieving the values, i.e., your program becomes more writable and readable.
• When using does>, you have to introduce a @ that cannot be optimized away (because you could change the data using >body...!); const-does> avoids this problem.

An ANS Forth implementation of const-does> is available in compat/const-does.fs.