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Date:Mon Sep 30 17:40:14 1993 
Subject:Re: Threaded Interpretive Languages 
From:Jack Woehr 
Volume-ID:930930.05 

mkraml@CAM.ORG (Mark Kraml) writes:

>i am still climbing that steep curve to forthdom, but i did a bit of 
>postscript before. i was wondering how the operator "bind" appears in 
>forth, i guess its one of those words i have yet to learn about.

	The conceptual space occupied by PScript "bind" and "binddef"
are occupied in Forth by colon definitions

	: FOO DUP SWAP OVER ;

and CONSTANT and non-standard constructs like Dr. Noble's ALIAS.

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