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Subject: Billions and billions of OOFs
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As befitting the nature of the Forth community, that are as many different
schemes for object oriented Forth systems as there are users of same.

I do not know of a single instance where one Forth system implementor or
vendor has used the same object-oriented scheme as another.

The same is true for local variable schemes and to a lesser extent
for search order schemes.

The implications of this for users, and for the future of Forth, are
left to the reader as an exercise.

Mitch