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From: olorin@juniper.uucp (David Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Glossaries
Keywords: Absolutely correct
Message-ID: <3044@juniper.uucp>
Date: 13 Jul 88 05:02:58 GMT
References: <8807121636.AA12801@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: olorin@juniper.UUCP (David Weinstein)
Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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In article <8807121636.AA12801@jade.berkeley.edu> A-PIRARD@BLIULG11.BITNET (Andre PIRARD) writes:
>I have always been amazed by glossaries being sorted alphabetically.
>This makes them a real pain to read. Isn't the place of LOOP just after DO,
>or even better, both described simultaneously with multiple headers.
>That way, a glossary is much more educational with everything in context.
>And alphabet is the realm of an index, isn't it?

Agreed. And my favorite, worn, and much battered copy refernce ("Starting
Forth" by Leo Brodie [Forth 79 edition]) does just that in Appendix 4.

Pity it isn't always done that way.




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Dave Weinstein
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