Branches
Examples above show no branches. For all interpreters, a branch changes the thread pointer (ip above). As example, a conditional branch when the top-of-stack value is zero might be encoded as follows. Note that &thread is the location to jump to, not the address of a handler, and so must be skipped (ip++) whether or not the branch is taken.
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—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
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certain leaves fallen
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