Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elroy!cit-vax!oberon!sdcrdcf!cs.utexas.edu!ut-sally!ut-emx!juniper!olorin 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 Lines: 18 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. -- Dave Weinstein Internet: olorin@walt.cc.utexas.edu UUCP: {ames,utah-cs,uunet}!ut-sally!ut-emx!{walt.cc.utexas.edu,juniper}!olorin