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[Author here.] Indeed, sectorFORTH (as I have mentioned) was the primary inspiration and guide for this project! Ironically, in some places I even had a rather different design which converged on a more sectorFORTH-like design - it's really well put together.

I've removed some primitives further from milliFORTH, but I haven't touched the arithmetic base. I hadn't seen those issues on sectorFORTH though, very interesting - I will look into it!

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Total tangent - I've often been annoyed at some library or whatever because I didn't like the way it was implemented or the api it exposed or whatever. So I try to reimplement it myself to my tastes, and eventually once I understand the problem and iterate a few times I end up with something remarkably similar to the library I initially didn't like.

It's a good reason to at least try to implement your own sometimes, rather than just use libraries - even if you end up just using the supported external dep, you'll understand it a lot better.

(not saying that's the case here, just that you reminded me of that with your convergance...)

Ah yes apologies, that'll teach me to look at the code before the readme!

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