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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: 0 SET-ORDER why? Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:50:45 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2024Jun28.175045@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <v5fjkr$1p13i$1@dont-email.me> <2024Jun26.094910@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <v5gs5j$23lka$2@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:59:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3a932462e79b92e3d1afc861dc6ce0f5"; logging-data="3577126"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Ph1mAVzled9rcmNZG3iqH" Cancel-Lock: sha1:bInT+9W8kr/3llQxnTgyX6ukE0U= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 Bytes: 1982 Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> writes: >On 6/26/24 02:49, Anton Ertl wrote: >> Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> writes: >>> Why is 0 a valid argument to SET-ORDER (from the optional Search-Order >>> word set)? It can leave a Forth system in a non-recoverable state. >> >> So what? There are lots of ways to put a Forth system in a >> non-recoverable state. >> ... > >By design? No. Does it matter? If the user accidentially puts the Forth system in a non-recoverable state, there is no difference between "by design" (e.g., 0 SET-ORDER) and "by doing non-standard things". If the user intentionally puts the Forth system in a non-recoverable state (e.g., <https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Crash-Course-Tutorial.html>), it does not matter, either. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html New standard: https://forth-standard.org/ EuroForth 2024: https://euro.theforth.net