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   sjack to All   
   FigForth Vocabularies   
   13 Jul 24 14:38:45   
   
   From: sjack@dontemail.me   
      
   Went whole hog on Fig Forth vocabularies. FORTH contains mostly just   
   the released FigForth words. TOAD is main branch for toad works   
   (my customization's). OP is for operator words that don't normally   
   get compiled .e.g. short cut aliases. WRK is for developing new   
   words, running jobs, demos and tests.   
      
   Word sets that branch from TOAD (or anywhere) have their private   
   words in their private vocabularies. The word NIX was defined to   
   FORGET and fix VOC-link chain that may break and CONTEXT of remaining   
   vocabularies should a vocabulary be in the forgotten path and also   
   free allocated buffers in buffer links that no longer exist in the   
   dictionary. MARKER uses NIX and ANEW uses MARKER.   
   FORGET was left its simple self for times when forgetting   
   and it's known vocabularies (and allocated buffers) are not involved,   
   for example:   
    0 VALUE FOO ' FOO FORGET FOO CONSTANT DOVAL   
      
   It's no longer KISS:   
     OP DEFS   \ See operator words (will want to see LSW)   
     TOAD LSW  \ List words only in TOAD context, excludes   
               \ the FORTH words that TOAD links into.   
     WRK  LSW  \ List words only in WRK context, and ditto   
     ( See why just OP TOAD LSW doesn't work? )   
      
   Using vocabularies to their fullest which adds a little complexity   
   may not be needed but the design was there and I wanted to see it   
   work and it's been simple enough so I'll just keep it.   
      
   --   
   me   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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