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From: "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm>
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Subject: Re: How to get an address for a string by direct user input without using PAD
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:56:13 -0500
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:32:49 -0500, Elizabeth D. Rather  
<erather@forth.com> wrote:

> An alternative (completely different approach) would be to have all the  
> 100+ drugs in a database. A "prescription" could consist of a linked  
> list of the components (probably stored as the record# in the database,  
> not the name).
>

Not to be critical, but isn't that what the historic Forth dictionary is?
I.e., database of Forth words as a linked-list.  E.g., why create another?


Rod Pemberton