Anonymous functions called quotes are used heavily by Retro. This shows a way to attach names to them.

In a classic Forth, words are created using :, which is one of numerous parsing words. So a named function looks like:

: foo ... ;

In Retro, there are no parsing words. There is a sigil handler :, yielding:

:foo ... ;

Quotes start with [ and end with ]. So they look like:

[ ... ]

If we want to name a quote, we need to:

• create a header
• assign the xt field to the quote address
• set the class handler

This word, def, does these.

~~~:def (as-)  d:create  d:last d:xt store  &class:word reclass ; 
~~~

An example of using this:

```[ 'Hello_%s!\n s:format s:put ]  'hello def 
'#forth hello 
```