Re: ciforth model

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: ciforth model
Date	2026-04-25 13:22 -0700
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albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:
> If you have a conflict, you rename the new offending definition,
> as you do now. 

How do you know when there is a conflict?  We're talking about a hash
collision, right?  Are we supposed to guarantee that the hash function
won't change between interpreter versions and that sort of thing?

"As you do now": well, no; I've never used a Forth that faced this
issue.  All the ones I've used have stored the entire name instead of
hashing.  I thought (or at least hoped) that the different lossy
compression schemes from the early days were historical artifacts due to
the very small machines of the era.  By the time of the Commodore 64,
those tricks were not needed.

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