Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!mit-eddie!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!dsl.pitt.edu!pitt!willett!ForthNet From: ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Conventions and "tricks" used in Forth Message-ID: <1866.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> Date: 16 Oct 90 03:16:35 GMT Organization: String, Scotch tape, and Paperclips. (in Pgh, PA) Lines: 23 Date: 10-02-90 (18:55) Number: 3952 (Echo) To: JONAH THOMAS Refer#: NONE From: IAN WATTERS Read: NO Subj: HASHING THE DICTIONARY Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE JT-> I wondered about using a binary tree for the dictionary structure. Don't forget to have some way to distinguish between words with the same name in different vocabularies. I forgot to mention an XOR with the vocabulary number in my orginal post's hashing function... Blush! Ian --- ~ SLMR 1.0 ~ It's noisy next door. A Dr Herbert West lives there... PCRelay:IBBSNET -> #143 RelayNet (tm) 4.10a15 London UK +44 71 704 0760 NET/Mail : DC Information Exchange, MetroLink Int'l Hub. (202)433-6639 ----- This message came from GEnie via willett through a semi-automated process. Report problems to: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us or uunet!willett!dwp