Actually, :: is a little more. It guarantees that the class member wordlist
will not be searched.
It was originally an escape so that the non-standard search mechanism could
be used to find
windows FUNCTION: definitions, which were not in FORTH, but in a separate
wordlist. The default
search during class method definition used to be a very different search
mechanism from the one
used during normal forth operation.

As to obscuring, is the question about a definition that was obscured when
that wasn't desired,
or about a definition that wasn't obscured when it was desired to be? The
answer changes how
you approach the problem.

Rick VanNorman

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