From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Ruvim  writes:   
   >On 2025-07-02 19:12, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   >> The benefit of defining a normal colon definition inside another colon   
   >> definition eludes me, however.  Maybe mutual recursion, but the need   
   >> is rare and deferred words handle that well.   
   >   
   >As I can see, the idea is that the name of a nested definition has the   
   >limited scope — the same as a local variable, and it is not visible   
   >outside of the containing definition.   
      
   I have found the limited scope to be a hindrance, not a help: When I   
   want to debug, I want to call the word, but if it is not visible,   
   that's hard.  There is a compromise: The scope recognizer allows to   
   invoke a word X in a vocabulary V with the syntax V:X:   
      
   vocabulary foo  ok   
   also foo definitions  ok   
   create foo1  ok   
   previous definitions  ok   
   foo1   
   *the terminal*:9:1: error: Undefined word   
   >>>foo1<<<   
   Backtrace:   
   kernel/recognizer.fs:89:21:              0 $7FCA47A12FF8 throw   
   foo:foo1 hex. \ output: $7FCA47AA0DE8  ok   
      
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