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From: rb@cci632.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Newsgroups: net.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Information Hiding in FORTH
Message-ID: <165@cci632.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Jul-86 10:31:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: cci632.165
Posted: Wed Jul  2 10:31:08 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jul-86 07:44:08 EDT
References: <12110@amdcad.UUCP>
Reply-To: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Organization: CCI, Rochester Development, Rochester, NY
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Summary: Vocabulary, context.

In article <12110@amdcad.UUCP> tim@amdcad.UUCP (Tim Olson) writes:
>I have been recently thinking of a way to implement something like the
>'C' static scoping type in forth.  This would allow a word or group of
>words to use a VARIABLE without letting the VARIABLE be visible outside
>the group;

>	c)  Is there another (easier) way to do this that I am not
>	    aware of?

If you have '83, you might wish to look at the finer points of
vocabulary and context words.  It is possible to create "statics"
this way.  This feature is often under-used, but useful.