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From: "Peter Knaggs" <pjk@bcs.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Specifying interfaces of "read-ahead" words
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:07:45 -0000
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On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:54:32 -0000, Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com>  
wrote:
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> Sure, but "<spaces>name" does not come from the _stack_ so why is it
> shown on the input side of a _stack signature_.

Because it is a "signature" rather than a "stack signature".  The input  
stream forms part of the input to the word.

-- 
Peter Knaggs