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From: Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: single-xt approach in the standard
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:34:26 +0400
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On 2024-09-22 01:28, PMF wrote:
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> Looking back at the standard, in my opinion it was a mistake to
> standardize the nt!  It would have been better to have
> FIND-INTERPRET  instead of FIND-NAME NAME>INTERPRET  and
> FIND-COMPILE  instead of FIND-NAME NAME>COMPILE.
> 
> That would have given more freedom to organize the internal header
> structure.

We already have a kind of FIND-INTERPRET and FIND-COMPILE from Forth-94. 
It is the FIND word, which depends on STATE.


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Ruvim