Re: THROW codes and ambiguous conditions

In article <101q6ik$10htc$1@dont-email.me>,  <sean@conman.org> wrote:

It was thus said that the Great dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> once stated:

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Perhaps the TC went along with Mitch.  CATCH THROW was his idea and
here's a bunch of codes to go with it.  The extent to which a tiny forth
is going to use ANS is dubious.

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 What constitutes a "tiny Forth"?  Because I just implemented ANS Forth [1]
for the 6809 [2], and I included CATCH and THROW.  It's almost 12K in size
and for the wordsets it implements, it passes the ANS Forth test suite.  I
implemented the EXCEPTION wordset because it seems a 2017 update mandated
it's use.  While I'm not a fan of exceptions, it wasn't hard to implement
and it seemed better thought out than SYNONYM [4].

Good work, 12K is justly considered tiny.

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 -spc
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[1]    I implemented CORE, CORE-EXT, DOUBLE, DOUBLE-EXT, EXCEPTION,
      EXCEPTION-EXT, LOCAL, LOCAL-EXT, TOOLS, some of TOOLS-EXT [3],
      SEARCH, SEARCH-EXT, STRING and STRING-EXT.
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[2]    https://github.com/spc476/ANS-Forth
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[3]    Words implemented from TOOLS-EXT: AHEAD, BYE, CS-PICK, CS_ROLL, N>R,
      NAME>COMPILE, NAME>INTERPRET, NAME>STRING, NR>, STATE,
      TRAVERSE-WORDLIST, [DEFINED], [ELSE], [IF], [THEN], [UNDEFINED].
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[4]    When reading about it [5], I decided I didn't want anything to do
      with that quagmire of a word.
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[5]    https://forth-standard.org/standard/tools/SYNONYM

You have included a lot of words that I considered not needed for
a tiny Forth.
The first time I will ever need CS-PICK I will add it to the library.
It is not eligible for a kernel word.

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