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Re: Search order - why usually two times "Forth"?

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on 18/02/2015 14:00:23,  wrote:
> albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) writes:
>>While we are at it, has some one ever removed the wordlist
>>to which definitions are added (CURRENT I think) from the
>>search order, to arrive at a special effect in compilation?
> 
> With SET-CURRENT you don't need to put it in the search order in the
> first place.  With DEFINITIONS you have to, but then you may be using
> vocabularies that overwrite the top of the search order, so no need to
> explicitly remove it, either. I.e.:
> 
> vocabulary assembler assembler definitions forth
> 
>>Has anybody a use case for this, i.e. a situation where
>>it is essential that CURRENT and CONTEXT are different?
> 
> Some assemblers define words that are spelled exactly like standard
> Forth words, e.g., AND XOR OR.  And you may want to use the Forth
> words while defining the assembler words, so you may want the
> ASSEMBLER wordlist to be current, but not in the search order.

The x86 assembler CMOVE (conditional MOV on flag EQ) caused me untold
grief when I implemented it; until I realised that it was being redefined
in the Forth wordlist rather than defined in the assembler wordlist.

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  Re: Search order - why usually two times "Forth"? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-17 09:33 +0000
    Re: Search order - why usually two times "Forth"? empty-buffers <empty.buffersYOU-DONT-WANT-THIS@gmail.NEITHER-THIS.com> - 2015-02-17 10:08 +0000
    Re: Search order - why usually two times "Forth"? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-02-17 11:07 +0000
  Re: Search order - why usually two times "Forth"? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-17 12:54 +0000
    Re: Search order - why usually two times "Forth"? empty-buffers <empty.buffersYOU-DONT-WANT-THIS@gmail.NEITHER-THIS.com> - 2015-02-17 18:38 +0000
      Re: Search order - why usually two times "Forth"? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-02-18 11:31 +0000
        Re: Search order - why usually two times "Forth"? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-02-18 13:16 +0000
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            Re: Search order - why usually two times "Forth"? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-02-18 16:44 +0000
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