[colorforth] How are words truncated?

[albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Albert van der Horst)]

One of the most annoying things remaining in my meta-assembler is
the situation with extension words, where a Huffman token spans
two 32 bit longs.
E.g. screen 18 reads

         (colorf +orth (Jul3 +1  ...
code     9       0     A     0

This is of course ugly.

Can anybody confirm this rule of splitting :
- tentatively add one more character.(This may fill in below zero bits!)
- if any bit below 5 is up, (including the below zero bits)
  it fails, and this character and following spill to the next long.

Is it possible or allowed to split differently over longs e.g.
(color +forth (Jul +31

The latter would require that a true meta-assembler could not
always interpret `` (colorforth '' into two tokens in an
unambiguous way. But it could still allow it as a convenience for
people who don't care.

Thanks!

Groetjes Albert

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