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Subject: ANS TC Magnet for Vocabularies and :
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Date: 21 Feb 91 23:30:54 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 02-19-91 (09:20)              Number: 1248 of 1262 (Echo)
   To: GARY SMITH                    Refer#: 1205
 From: RAY DUNCAN                      Read: NO
 Subj: ANS TC MAGNET FOR VOCABUL     Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 Thank you, Mitch, for exactly summarizing my objections to ALSO/ONLY.

 In LMI Forth systems, FIND uses a three-level search order:
    CONTEXT->CURRENT->FORTH
 However, we also have a building block word (find) that is called by
 FIND and can search an arbitrary string of vocabulary threads - from one
 to many.  So it is very easy to implement other schemes for search order
 control in LMI Forths and in fact the ALSO/ONLY scheme can be layered on
 top of our systems in 1 or 2 screens of code.

 NET/Mail : LMI Forth Board, Los Angeles, CA (213) 306-3530
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