The Forth dictionary is relinked to search the superclass dictionary after the class dictionary is searched. Since there is no standard representation of the Forth dictionary, such systems are necessarily tailored to a specific Forth implementation. This vocabulary is added to the dictionary search order only when the corresponding class is being compiled. D ictionary relinking. The Forth dictionary is relinked to remove methods and data from the search order.
P rivate symbol tables.
Method and data names are not stored in the Forth dictionary. H ash code. An integer hash code which is used to search a list or traverse a CASE statement. An address in the Forth system. The name of the selector is stored as a text string, which is used to search the Forth dictionary.