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From: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: The Right Dictionary Structure
Message-ID: <1797.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 29 Sep 90 02:38:03 GMT
References: <67@rc6.urc.tue.nl>
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In <67@rc6.urc.tue.nl>, wsbusup@eutws1.win.tue.nl (Jan Stout) writes:
> Recently having obtained a copy of FIFTH, I started to wonder about the Right
> Way for Forth's dictionarystructure.
> First let me explain what the FIFTHmakers concocted:
> 
> In FIFTH every word is also the name for a possible subdictionary containing
> words that may ONLY be used by the word that acts as the dictionaryidentifier.
> To clarify, let's draw some piece of dictionarytree:
> 
> 
> I'd like to know if anyone out there who has been thinking 'bout this, 
> and has come up with anything near a solution.
> My own suggestion would be to let FIND search all (sub)dicts that are BELOW,
> LEFT or ABOVE a given word. (in that order).
> The application word then would be in one of the most LEFT subdicts.

I'm curious as to what you thought about the "Libraries for Forth"
post Rob Chapman.  I thought it reminded me of Fifth, but I don't know
Fifth well enough to tell.

-Doug
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