Re: named wordlist

In article <vfslvv$20cbt$1@dont-email.me>,
Ruvim  <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> wrote:

When a word list is created with `vocabulary`, it is associated with a
name, and `order` displays this name in its output.
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When a word list is created by `wordlist`, it is not associated with a
name. Therefore, `order` typically displays a number for that word list,
which is less informative.

ORDER SEE LOCATE .S are introspective words.
They are inseparable from the Forth they belong too.
Neither of these words has an output that you can build on to generate
other words.
So they are "best effort" words, they can be high quality if present
in an elaborate system like gforth, or they can be missed at all.
In ciforth you can recompile the result of SEE , while other Forth's
priority is to give insight of e.g. optimisation.

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A Forth system might try to find a constant whose value is identical to
the wid of such word list and display the name of the constant. Do you
know if this approach is used anywhere?

In view of the above, I consider philosophizing about how to further
define the above words futile.

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