From: krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org   
      
   On 6/27/24 17:08, Gerry Jackson wrote:   
   > On 27/06/2024 20:22, Krishna Myneni wrote:   
   ...   
   >>> The solutions are:   
   >>>   
   >>> 1) leave everything as is, and live with the contradiction and the   
   >>> hazard of performing 0 SET-ORDER in interpretation state.   
   >   
   > I favour  this, there are other ways of achieving the effect of   
   > 0 SET-ORDER in interpretation mode, for example   
   >   
   > 1) WORDLIST 1 SET-ORDER   
   >   
   > 2)  Using PREVIOUS on a search order of FORTH-WORDLIST only (assuming   
   > FORTH-WORDLIST contains PREVIOUS)   
   >   
   > 3) ...   
   >   
   > I suspect trying to ban every possibility isn't worth it   
   >   
      
   Since SET-ORDER is a standardized word and changing its behavior would   
   break existing code, it's not the right approach anyway. The options   
   2--3 are really for suggesting another word which has the behavior of   
   SET-ORDER except for the zero arg case.   
      
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   Krishna   
      
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