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From: sjack@dontemail.me (sjack)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Why dial-a-standard is not a thing in Forth
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:51:19 -0000 (UTC)
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dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What happens in the case of CATCH - what's left on the stack?
> 

Nowadays I don't use catch/throw, not that I have anything against it;
I'm just being retro. But from past experience, if I recall right, the
data stack may have been reset to its former position at the time of
catch but the data on the stack could be dirty. Any on-error action,
e.g. i/o cleanup, prior to abort would be prudent in avoiding the
use of data left on the data stack (if catch hadn't restored it from 
a clone copy).

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