> Variables have to go somewhere. As I already mentioned, in Forth you barely need variables. Everything happens on the stack. The rest is global. Forth requi

> Variables have to go somewhere. As I already mentioned, in Forth you barely need variables. Everything happens on the stack. The rest is global. Forth requires a radical shift in thinking about programming. You should read Leo Brodie's book "Thinking Forth". http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/ http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/ > Good luck finding them amidst all the confusing rolling, picking, duping, etc. Good Forth code style uses comments all the time. For instance: ( swap the two top values ) : myswap ( x y -- y x) <= x y is input, y x is output swap ( y x ) ; If you keep every Forth routine small then you can really have fun in Forth without local variables. By the way, I would never use Forth for big software. Forth is particularly powerful in tiny systems where every byte matters.