Development and Release status

I have increasingly been thinking how useful it would be to have a development and a release option for a project, with different options assignable to each of them and possibly even different source files, yet all part of the same project.

I realise that this might go against the ethos of the deliberately created simplicity of 'Simply Forthran', but it would be very useful.  What is more, it would be a facility which users would not have to  make use of if they did not need it or were unaware of it.
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John