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That has happened now. the top return stack element is now identical to IP, and points into HILEVEL1, into which IP was pointing to all the time. Now that IP has been saved, it can be changed without danger to not find back. By transferring the contents of W to IP, IP will point to the colon word which we are preparing to execute in a moment.