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From: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Vocabularies
Message-ID: <1595.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 24 Aug 90 05:05:51 GMT
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In <1579.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>, W.FEDERICI writes:

>  I don't think we have any disagreement here, but I really do
>  feel the need to make the distinction between "generating an
>  argument by scanning the current input stream"  and "always
>  preceding the argument".  Both are "prefix", but they aren't
>  quite the same thing.

I'm not sure what you mean by "always preceding the argument".
Could you give an example that doesn't fall into the first category?
i.e. Where would the argument come from if not the input stream and yet
still be "prefix"?

-Doug

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