Because Windows API have thousands of functions, I think it would be better
to have a explicit dedicaced wordlist (as ASSEMBLER, etc.) to hide the
imported functions.

The actual implementation generates a lot of problems and possible
confusions:

_small example_

        ONLY FORTH ALSO DEFINITIONS
        1 IMPORT: MessageBeep

        ' MessageBeep \ error: MessageBeep not found (abnormal)
        C" MessageBeep" FIND \ return 0 - not found (abnormal)
        [DEFINED] MessageBeep \ return 0 - not found (abnormal)

The problem can become more important if one library define a synonym word,
for instance imagine the function "Dup()" in any library (standard or not)
!

Why not to use a more traditional wordlist usage with IMPORT: ?

Charles

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Charles Melice
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Received on Mon May 10 1999 - 14:14:33 PDT