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quoting symbols

so, why not use syntax for this?

`hello : 1 2 3 ;

i think i need to preserve parsing words for the simple reason that
':' is a parsing word. changing that behaviour makes things very
different from standard forth.

however, internally the parsing words should compile to the literal
stack.

the code above is actually quite clean. it has a symbolic
representation as CAT code, in the form of lisp's quote form. this
could be translated to forth in a minimal way. i could use this
symbolic representation as the output of the parsing stage. an
alternative lexer could then be used to make use of the more
functional forth described above (one without parsing words, only some
symbolic quote mechanism, where macros are purely concatenative).

note that since it's not legal to have a literal symbol not optimized
away, the ':' is redundant: symbols present after conpilation are just
labels. maybe even better, symbols are always labels. so why not get
rid of the space?

:help 1 2 3 ;

so, if parsing macros are symbolic transformers, interactive macros
could be the same. 'test words' if you want. this could lead to a
better simulator. the first version looks better, and has `<word>
compile <word> as literal.




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