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Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> writes:
> "$" words are sometimes usefull, that's why I exposed them.

I remember being surprised I couldn't find anything like them in the
ANS standard.  It seems like a shortcoming.  Gforth has NEXTNAME which
is like your $data, but it's non-standard.