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nine_ktoday at 7:48 PM1 replyview on HN

There's no docs or implementation, but I'd say that `.` in Forth is a generic way to print something, and `emit` may do more work, like HTML escaping.


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wizzwizz4today at 8:18 PM

It looks like it's the opposite: `.` does HTML escaping, whereas `emit` is raw.