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Category 10,  Topic 14
Message 18        Fri Aug 31, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 13:33 EDT
 
From Elizabeth Rather, Chair, ANS X3J14 Technical Committee:

This is addressed to those who have been commenting extensively on our work on
UseNet and related boards.

4. History of CREATE:  Historically (1971 and many years since), it's the
primitive for making the head part of definitions, using WORD to parse the
input stream to yield a counted string at HERE, where CREATE then appended a
link and code field.  With this model, other defining words use CREATE to make
the head, then substitute another code field, followed by data or execution
tokens.  ANS Forth doesn't assume this model, but doesn't preclude it.
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