Forth: the dictionary
Contents
Sources
- Edward K. Conklin and Elizabeth D. Rather, Forth Programmer’s Handbook 3rd edition, Chapter 1 Introduction
Implementation
“The dictionary is a linked list of variable-length entries, each of which is a Forth word and its definition […] THe dictionary is searched by sequentially matching names in source text against names compiled in the dictionary” (Conklin and Rather, Forth Programmer’s Handbook 19).