--- /dev/null
+\ Floating point arithmetic
+
+: lshift 2* ;
+: rshift 2/ ;
+
+: nlshift 0 do lshift loop ;
+: nrshift 0 do rshift loop ;
+
+1 52 nlshift 1- constant frac-mask
+1 11 nlshift 1- 52 nlshift constant exp-mask
+
+: fraction
+ frac-mask and ;
+
+: exponent
+ exp-mask and 52 nrshift ;
+
+: sign ( float -- sign )
+ 0> ;
+
+: make-float ( sign exponent fraction -- float )
+ swap 52 nlshift or
+ swap false = if
+ negate
+ then
+;
\ ------ Types ------
-0 constant fixnum-type
-1 constant boolean-type
-2 constant character-type
-3 constant string-type
-4 constant nil-type
-5 constant pair-type
-6 constant symbol-type
-7 constant primitive-proc-type
-8 constant compound-proc-type
+variable nexttype
+0 nexttype !
+: make-type
+ create nexttype @ ,
+ nexttype @ 1+ nexttype !
+ does> @ ;
+
+make-type fixnum-type
+make-type real-type
+make-type boolean-type
+make-type character-type
+make-type string-type
+make-type nil-type
+make-type pair-type
+make-type symbol-type
+make-type primitive-proc-type
+make-type compound-proc-type
: istype? ( obj type -- obj bool )
over = ;