From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 25/09/2025 4:36 pm, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   > dxf  writes:   
   >> "ambiguous condition:   
   >> A circumstance for which this Standard does not prescribe a specific   
   behavior   
   >> for Forth systems and programs."   
   >>   
   >> "undefined" and "not prescribe a specific behavior" seem much alike to me.   
   >> Either way, the Standard is saying don't do this thing.   
   >   
   > Not really.  The standard just does not specify what happens in this   
   > case.   
   >   
   >> It's not as if   
   >> they'd said nothing about it and left it up to you.   
   >   
   > It's exactly that.   
      
   Hardly:   
      
   -14 [THROW] interpreting a compile-only word   
      
   > As a programmer, if you know how the systems you are interested in   
   > behave, you can make use of that knowledge; the program will then not   
   > conform to the current standard, but still work as intended on these   
   > systems.  In a standard based on common practice, that's the only   
   > way to achieve progress.   
      
   AFAICS the standard is a document of agreed practice - not 'you do your   
   thing and I'll do mine'.  But perhaps you were never up for that?  I   
   can't say I was - not that I knew it at the time.  When one grows up in   
   an environment that peddles a certain idea, it can be sometime before   
   one realizes that's all it is.   
      
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