FORTH and Hypercard

[Mark Wieder]

Stephen-

Sunday, October 16, 2005, 6:47:15 PM, you wrote:

> I also liked a feature of Hypercard that was like forth - you could
> redefine and intercept a lower level handler using the same name. I 
> guess it was a design decision to not allow that in Transcript.... 
> but why?

Yes, that's the keyword overloading feature I'm wishing we had...

not that I would wish Forth syntax on Transcript, but its
extensibility is the stuff dreams are made of.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net