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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Factoring of CREATE
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Date: 23 Aug 90 19:56:16 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <9008230617.AA28712@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> wmb%MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV writes:
> 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.

You mean like in STOIC?

I'm not sure that's the right way to factor them. Better would be a word
that created an anonymous thing (I'd say "object" but that has connotations
I'm not interested in for this discussion), and a word that names an object:

: ... ; foo define
3 variable bar define
...
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