# Hiding Words

It's often useful to be able to hide a word from the global
dictionary. This can be done with the lexical scope words,
but here I present a different approach.

To hide a word, it is sufficient to change its name to
something that will never be matched. Since strings are
null terminated, just replacing the first character with
a null suffices.

So all that needs to be done is to create an array of headers
we want to hide, then iterate over that to smudge out the
names.

# Code

~~~
'To-Hide d:create #65 allot

:private @Dictionary @To-Hide &To-Hide + n:inc store &To-Hide v:inc ;

:hide-private
  &To-Hide [ d:name v:off ] a:for-each &To-Hide v:off ;
~~~

# Example

```
:a ;
:b ; private
:f ; private
:c ;
:d ; private
:e ;

hide-private
```