// stdio.asm: WORD p_lparen,'(',fasm,IMMEDIATE anchor:p_lparen[] === Word: ( .... Data stack: ( -- ) .... "(" (left parenthesis) is a function word that scans and ignores words until the next right parenthesis, or the end of the stream. This is used for comments in RRQFORTH code. Note that the terminating right parenthesis is a word, i.e. must have whitespace before and after it.