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OCR: More about objects Binding As you know, there are two principal states that the Mops Sv stem can be in. When you first start Mops, the system waiting for your input, ready vinterpretw hatever you enter at the key yboard or from a load file on the This is knownrun state or interpret state and when is active, Mops immediately executes whatever piom names you enter into the input stream. On the other hand, you may wish to create colon definitions or methods that compile code to be executed later After the Mops interpreter sees colon (or :m) and before sees the next semicolon (or ;m), Mops will be in I compilestate. and rather than immeditely execute the words that it sees. Mops will compile code to call those words into the dictionary. A colon definition is thus a list of calls to other words ...