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Re: Glossary of Words

From: Rick VanNorman <rvn_at_forth.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 10:45:53 -0800

unfortunately, no. if you would like to volunteer to build
such a list and publish it either as a help file or an html
file, i will be glad to help you do it. however, i haven't
the time to do that much work myself.

the biggest problem with the list is how to organize it.
a straight alphabetical organization is not going to be
usable without a very comprehensive cross-reference; and
anything else requires a great deal of insight.

another problem is that there are a great many words in
total, almost 4000 of them. and, a percentage (i think
about half) are used as building blocks only and are not
generally useful.

rick vannorman

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>From: Alberto Pasquale <alberto_at_hal-pc.org>
>
>Hi,
>A beginner question.
>I received my copy of Swift.
>
>There are words in the system, used in the samples, that I can not find
>in the help search, or in any other document.
>For example Z" H! W!
>By the context in the sample sources, I see what they do.
>
>Is there any document that lists all the words in Swift, with a
>description of what they do?

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Received on Sat Dec 25 1999 - 10:45:53 PST

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