From e442729e05bbe1332f6536152d2baa29b60e01c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Thier <magosit@outlook.hu>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:46:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] skipped if idea

---
 examples/if.slc | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/examples/if.slc b/examples/if.slc
index 35ab44f..73eb679 100644
--- a/examples/if.slc
+++ b/examples/if.slc
@@ -60,3 +60,17 @@
 	gen(zero)
 	branchcall
 ;
+
+// Alternatively I can just add a "branchskip" to the list of predefined words and way to just count words and geninline(..)
+::builtin if
+	geninline()
+	genpush(_)
+	countwords{}
+	genpush(_)
+	countwords[] // returns 0 if there was no block (its SKIP to 'branchskip' 0)
+	genpush(_)
+	gen(branchskip)
+;
+
+// This is not only simpler, but one can implement branchcall via a tiny bit of branchskip and a call to be honest...
+// Also I feel like this results in bytecode with much better cache locality.