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"HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
> Factoring results in more names.  If they're not needed, they become a
> distraction... WONG'S RULES FOR READABLE FORTH (FPH)
> 3. Do not factor just to factor.

1. Who's Wong?

2. If the factors are scoped (maybe just by naming convention) so they
don't pullute the global namespace, is distraction still a problem?

If I want to split a word FOO into several factors that aren't going
to be used anywhere else, I generally call them FOO.1, FOO.2 etc.
That's the type of thing that asm programmers end up doing and it
seems to work afaict.