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Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> writes:
> I believe Thinking Forth advises to not pass around boolean flags

Oh that's interesting, I hadn't known about that.  But don't all the
usual comparison words like < return flags?  I wonder what the problem
is.

> : go   0 begin 1+ dup check again ;

I still like Julian's version better.  I'd forgotten about UNTIL.