> Out of the box, out of the standard, there no real structured data type ala records, there's no strings, there's no modular coding construct. All of those can

> Out of the box, out of the standard, there no real structured data type ala records, there's no strings, there's no modular coding construct. All of those can be added, but that's the trick. They have to be added. There are structures, strings, etc in standard forth. And if you're using an older forth without structures here is a structures library in 2 lines: : +FIELD OVER + SWAP CREATE , DOES> @ + ; : FIELD: ALIGNED 1 CELLS +FIELD ; Usage: \ Shape struct 0 FIELD: SHAPE.WIDTH FIELD: SHAPE.HEIGHT FIELD: SHAPE.AREA CONSTANT %SHAPE \ Example shape CREATE SQUARE 1 , 1 , 1 , \ Get height SQUARE SHAPE.HEIGHT ? \ Get area SQUARE SHAPE.AREA ? \ Set width 2 SQUARE SHAPE.WIDTH ! 2 SQUARE SHAPE.AREA !