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Comment by MaxBarraclough

> Its seen as bad practice to use anything but one argument per word.

I've never heard this before. Many of the words in the ANS Forth standard [0] consume more than one element from the data stack, and it's hard to see how else they could be defined.

The '+' word consumes 2 elements, as we'd expect. So does '!'.

[0] http://lars.nocrew.org/forth2012/alpha.html

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