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From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM
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Subject: Factoring of CREATE
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Date: 21 Aug 90 16:17:35 GMT
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> > CREATE (and other words) can be easily refactored as "take next word from
> > input stream then invoke $CREATE" which takes a string argument.  THis
> > means that strings would have to be standardized. (Are you listening
> > ANSI dudes?).
>
> Agreed!  HERE!  HERE!  :-)

Of course, this implies that EACH of those "other words" will need string
versions too, i.e. $: $VARIABLE $CONSTANT $CODE and any other defining
words that are present in one's system.  Furthermore, user's would be
advised, for consistency's sake, to make 2 versions of every CREATE ...
DOES> word.

In retrospect, I think it would be better if the CREATE forms (as opposed
to the $CREATE form) did not exist.  But that is water under the bridge.

From where we stand today, the QUOTE-TO solution as given by Robert Berkey
is probably the best way out of the jam.  QUOTE-TO allows you pass a stack
string to an existing defining word, e.g.

	" FOOBAR"  ' CREATE  QUOTE-TO

Mitch