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Subject: Flow Control Words
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Date: 2 Jan 91 21:41:00 GMT
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> prefer to go in the opposite direction, removing some of the syntax
> that Forth already has (defining words have "one word lookahead" syntax,
> and control structures have syntax).  Syntax is an impediment to
> extensibility, and the few syntactic constructs that Forth already
> has frequently cause problems.

What is your alternative to control structures? Get CFA from stack? I'm really
insterested.

> Mitch Bradley, wmb@Eng.Sun.COM
                                (8-DCS)
Daniel C. Sobral
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