From: the.beez.speaks@gmail.com   
      
   On 21-04-2025 09:38, dxf wrote:   
    > On 21/04/2025 6:34 am, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
    >> In article <757e2ced7a6ff4b73d9fa4531d29ff611dc72e10@i2pn2.org>,   
    >> dxf   wrote:   
    >>> On 20/04/2025 6:18 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:   
    >>>> anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:   
    >>>>> : DECIMAL ( -- )   10 BASE ! ;   
    >>>>> does not contain an invocation of DECIMAL before this use of "10".   
    >>>>   
    >>>> : DECIMAL ( -- ) 5 5 + BASE ! ;   
    >>>>   
    >>>> should usually work.   
    >>>   
    >>> Perhaps it's been updated since as the SwiftForth file I have has:   
    >>>   
    >>> : DECIMAL ( -- )   $0A BASE ! ;   
    >>>   
    >>> Closest thing to a BASE issue I've encountered was invoking the   
    >>> screen editor while in HEX.  After doing that a few times I fixed   
    >>> the editor!   
    >>>   
    >>> Really annoying was LMI which on error switched to DECIMAL ...   
    >>   
    >> They had it half right. All error numbers should be printed in   
    >> decimal. First aid read the paragraphs in de documentation   
    >> pertaining to this error.   
    >   
    > I notice I did that for THROW numbers that don't have a message - after   
    > which it reverts to the current BASE.  I should document that   
   somewhere...   
      
   To force myself to add messages to THROWs (especially in libs with   
   special conditions) I added THROW" - it works like a combination of   
   ABORT" and THROW. You need to specify a THROW code, you need to specify   
   a flag and you need to specify a message.   
      
   Hans Bezemer   
      
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