Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!shakti!shri
From: shri@ncst.ernet.in (H.Shrikumar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: The Right Dictionary Structure
Summary: How does FIFTH syntax specify the sub-directory ...
Message-ID: <1012@shakti.ncst.ernet.in>
Date: 16 Oct 90 05:15:43 GMT
References: <67@rc6.urc.tue.nl>
Reply-To: shri@ncst.in (H.Shrikumar )
Organization: National Centre for Software Technology, Bombay, INDIA
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In article <67@rc6.urc.tue.nl> wsbusup@eutws1.win.tue.nl
  (Jan Stout) writes:
>the Right Way for Forth's dictionarystructure.
>
>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.
>

   This is interesting.

   Could you drop a small note on FIFTH syntax ... what constructs/syntax
does FIFTH use to specify such a tree structure ?

   In myForth I have been working on for an embedded project, I have been
using parens to do this scoping, so I'd like to see how it is here.

   I dont see the problem you mention with EMIT. Yes, words like EMIT
will have to be in the root directory. It becoming *big* per se is not
a worry, it becoming *too* *big* with words used only in one context
(context = small subset of related words in an application) is what to
watch out for.  But maybe I have not read you right.

-- shrikumar ( shri@ncst.in )