Re: bye with exit status

On 2024-11-06 07:12, Ruvim wrote:

For example, the following code fragments have stack effect ( n -- ⊥ )
and use n as the process exit status:
    SwiftForth "exitstatus ! bye"
   VfxForth   "exitcode ! bye"

Don't like this behaviour; it comes off like a side-effect.

   Gforth     "(bye)"

I'd be content with `(bye)`.

   ciforth    "exit-code ! bye"
   mf3        "sysexit"
   Post4      "bye-code"

Just because there was nothing in the standard and I was not aware of what others did.  I had considered `OSEXIT`  or `EXIT-TO-HOST`, but neither of these come off as related to `BYE` when you see the name.
(bye)
bye-code
bye-status
bye-exit
bye-bye   ( ok I'm getting silly; point is it should relate to BYE )

   SP-Forth   "halt"

I do _not_ like this choice, because I associate "halt" with system halt, ie. `shutdown -h now` or `halt(1)`.
And certainly not `hcf`.

Could you suggest some names for the word with this functionality so that one of them can be standardized?
 This word should not output any messages.

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