I am not sure what you mean. "(" and ")" as their own words form comments in Forth. As an example: (if (< a b) Would be parsed completely differently from

I am not sure what you mean. "(" and ")" as their own words form comments in Forth. As an example: (if (< a b) Would be parsed completely differently from: ( if ( < a b ) The first will have the interpreter look up and execute the words "(if", "(<", "a", and "b)". The second will have the interpeter look up the word "(", which will skip all the text that comes before a ")".