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Subject: Re: Given a string, create word with that name (in ANS Forth)?
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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> Anyway, the discussion is about whether making something like NEXTNAME
> standard may be a good idea.

As an alternative to both NEXTNAME and EXECUTE-PARSING, what about 
something like EVAL ( a u -- ), which would simply take a string and
run it through the text interpreter?  The BLOCKS system has to be able
to do something like that already.