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From: Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org>
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Subject: Re: dynamic scoping in Forth in one line of code
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albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:
> In article <874igd9fjt.fsf@debian>,
> Kragen Javier Sitaker  <kragen@canonical.org> wrote:
>>What a pleasant surprise to receive a response from the man himself!
>
> Really? I think CO is a fairly trivial addition and it is present
> in guises in assembler tricks/techniques.

I think you’ve internalized it sufficiently that it’s not surprising to
you, but it was surprising to me when I encountered it a year and a half
ago, at which point I’d been programming for 43 years and occasionally
programming in Forth for 27 years.  Maybe I'm just a slow learner.

Kragen