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# Forth
Welcome to Forth on Exercism's Go Track.
If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
## Instructions
Implement an evaluator for a very simple subset of Forth.
[Forth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_%28programming_language%29)
is a stack-based programming language. Implement a very basic evaluator
for a small subset of Forth.
Your evaluator has to support the following words:
- `+`, `-`, `*`, `/` (integer arithmetic)
- `DUP`, `DROP`, `SWAP`, `OVER` (stack manipulation)
Your evaluator also has to support defining new words using the
customary syntax: `: word-name definition ;`.
To keep things simple the only data type you need to support is signed
integers of at least 16 bits size.
You should use the following rules for the syntax: a number is a
sequence of one or more (ASCII) digits, a word is a sequence of one or
more letters, digits, symbols or punctuation that is not a number.
(Forth probably uses slightly different rules, but this is close
enough.)
Words are case-insensitive.
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