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From: wmb@SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: interactive control structures
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Date: 8 Jan 90 22:55:34 GMT
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> ... discussion about various fancy input mechanisms ...
> ... These ideas could have been and SHOULD have been appearing in Forth
> implementations ...
>
> What's YOUR excuse?

No excuse needed.  Such things HAVE appeared and do appear in Forth
implementations.

It seems to me that you are basing much of your opinion on a very small
sample of Forth implementations, and almost zero exposure to the Forth
literature.  I think it would be a good idea to read some back issues
of JFAR, Forth Dimensions, FORML conference proceedings, and Rochester
Conference Proceedings.  No sense in reinventing the wheel.

Mitch