h8gi / fifth

forth interpreter written in golang

fifth

Simple forth interpreter written in go

Usage

You can use fifth as a repl or a library.

as a repl

go get github.com/h8gi/fifth
./fifth

as a library

package main

import (
	fifth "github.com/h8gi/fifth/lib"
)

func main() {
	i := fifth.NewInterpreter()
	i.SetReader(os.Stdin)
	i.SetWriter(os.Stdout)
	i.Repl()
}

Primitive words

see primitives.go

Todo

• Get values from the interpreter
• Send values to the interpreter
• Eval text

fifth's Issues

Documentation Please

First thank you for all of the hard work.
Forth in GoLang. Brilliant.

Yesterday I tried out the Forth's written in Python. First 2 failed to work, third one looked sketchy, which is why I tried it last, but is really awesome.

So today, I am checking out the Go versions. Because i really want many small Forth interpreters. Your came up first. But like no documentation. Even a few paragraphs in the read me about the state of the project would be hugely informative. i do not need detailed docs of the words, but just a little background, history, context, to do lists. Something to give me a sense of where this project is, would hugely increse my confidence in it.

Hope that helps.
Thanks again for writing it.
Chris