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by chalst 2205 days ago
The ANS Forth standard supports named local variables. Unfortunately Forth dialects vary quite a bit in their implementation and prefered use of local variables, and the semantics of local variables are a bit hairy.

Cf. https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/ANS...