From: ruvim.pinka@gmail.com   
      
   On 2024-11-01 16:06, Stephen Pelc wrote:   
   > On 31 Oct 2024 at 17:30:45 CET, "mhx"  wrote:   
   >> It is also messy to write a definition that needs   
   >> words from different vocabularies.   
   >> ( Like a book with footnotes that span multiple pages,   
   >> or where a chapter can not be read on its own. )   
   >>   
   >> How did you solve that complexity?   
   >   
   > Gerald Wodni implemented the VOC-DOT notation for VFX as a   
   > recogniser. To reference a word in another vocabulary, just use   
   >    .   
   > This notation has proven to be very useful, especially when dealing   
   > with a range of byte-oriented serial devices, e.g:   
   >    i2c.emit   
   >    spi.emit   
   >   
   > The notation also reads well. I have no idea who invented it originally   
   > and where the original source code is.   
      
      
   Such a syntax is used in SP-Forth/4 since 2001, in the form   
   :: or ::::   
      
   Where  is a word that returns wid, or a word that is created with   
   `vocabulary`.   
      
   This syntax in SP-Forth probably came after C++ "::" operator,   
   introduced in 1998.  The same operator was in C# from its initial   
   release in 2000.   
      
   The dot "." operator for accessing nested packages in Java was   
   introduced in 1995.   
      
   In Forth, a dot is often used as part of plain names, so it was less   
   suitable as a namespace separator.   
      
      
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