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From: Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com>
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Subject: Re: Why dial-a-standard is not a thing in Forth
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 13:44:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On 1 May 2025 at 13:17:27 CEST, "John Doe" <john.doe@myemail.invalid> wrote:

> On 1 May 2025 at 03:23:53 CEST, "dxf" <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> AFAIK on most forth systems exceptions generate either an error code or an
>> error message (the latter via ABORT" or caught code).  In short, what good
>> is having both a msg and a code?
> 
> THROWs are defined to be defined by their throw number. Whether or not a
> message is associated with the throw number is a factor of the Forth
> implementation.
> In VFX, the return to the text interpreter looks for a message associated with
> the throw number and displays it if found.
> 
> There are three benefits of this.
> 1) it is less code to reuse a THROW by number rather than by text,
> 2) I can change the text in one place only for all uses,
> 3) Internationalisartion is much easier.
> 
> Stephen

Sorry for the faIled transition to a new machine.

Stephen
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