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   Stephen Pelc to John Doe   
   Re: Why dial-a-standard is not a thing i   
   01 May 25 13:44:03   
   
   From: stephen@vfxforth.com   
      
   On 1 May 2025 at 13:17:27 CEST, "John Doe"  wrote:   
      
   > On 1 May 2025 at 03:23:53 CEST, "dxf"  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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