Pep and Nom

the ℕ𝕠𝕞 "put" command ....

put the contents of the workspace into the current tape cell

The put command places the entire contents of the workspace into the current tape cell, overwriting any previous value which that cell might have had. The put command takes no parameters.

   read;
   [:alpha:] { 
     while [:alpha:]; put; 
     clear; add "word*"; push;
     .reparse
   }
   # delete/ignore everthing else
   !"" { clear; }
  parse>
   (eof) {
     # get a word and print in reverse
     pop; "word*" {
       clear; get; add " "; print; clear;
       .reparse
     }
     quit;
   }
 

  clear; add "one"; put; ++; put; --;

The put command only affects the current tape cell of the virtual machine.

After a put command the workspace buffer is unchanged*. This contrasts with the nom push command which pushes a certain amount of text (one parse token) from the workspace onto the stack and deletes the same amount of text from the workspace buffer.

The put command is the counterpart of the get command which retrieves or gets the contents of the current item of the tape data structure. Since the tape is generally designed for storing the values or the attributes of parse tokens, the put command is essentially designed to store values of attributes. However, the put command overwrites the contents of the current tape cell, whereas the “get” command appends the contents of the current tape cell to the work space.

The put command can be used in conjunction with the 'increment' ++ and 'decrement' -- commands to store values in the tape which are not the current tape item.