From: ruvim.pinka@gmail.com   
      
   On 2024-11-01 18:28, Ruvim wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
      
   Another piece of history.   
      
   In Tcl, the sequence "::" for accessing namespaces was introduced in   
   1997[1].   
      
   In Erlang, the sequence ":" (sic one colon) for accessing namespaces   
   (which are essentially modules) was since its initial release in 1995.   
      
      
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