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From: thomson@utah-cs.UUCP (Rich Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Glossaries
Message-ID: <5600@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 88 23:15:19 GMT
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Reply-To: thomson@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Rich Thomson)
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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.
>
>Andr .

I would like to see the FORTH standard words arranged as a hypertext structure
so that I could view documentation for the words on-line and see related words
easily.  I wish I had a function oriented glossary for Multi-Forth on the Amiga.
It would make it alot easier to remember the string word that does what I want,
etc., etc.

I suspect that the primary reason for alphabetic glossaries is simply laziness.

						-- Rich
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