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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Given a string, create word with that name (in ANS Forth)?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 01:10:03 -0700
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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> Gforth provides NEXTNAME ( c-addr u -- ),
> and you can CREATE a word with a space as a name as follows:
> s"  " nextname create

This is nice.  I didn't know about it.  Any chance of proposing
standardizing it?