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Subject: Conventions and "tricks" used in Forth
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Date: 25 Oct 90 02:18:53 GMT
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 Date: 10-19-90 (10:08)              Number: 4082 (Echo)
   To: RAY DUNCAN                    Refer#: 4048
 From: ELLIOTT CHAPIN                  Read: NO
 Subj: CONVENTIONS AND "TRICKS"      Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 RD>The biggest problem with the hash-cache approach is in interpreting
 RD>numbers;  you must probe the cache AND exhaustively search the linked
 RD>dictionary before you can conclude that the token is a number and not a
 RD>Forth "word."  The completely hashed dictionary eliminates this problem.

 I have wondered for a long time why one doesn't hear of checking for
 numbers before words.

 Elliott Chapin
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