Re: THROW codes and ambiguous conditions

In article <101u12p$23a54$1@dont-email.me>,  <sean@conman.org> wrote:

It was thus said that the Great albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl once stated:

Good work, 12K is justly considered tiny.

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 Thank you.
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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

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You have included a lot of words that I considered not needed for
a tiny Forth.

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 Such as?  One goal (which kind of went to the wayside as I was writing)
was to use as much of standard Forth as possible to write the code (and less
to implement in assembly), thus the inclusion of AHEAD, CS-ROLL, etc.  But
once I past 8K with pretty much CORE, CORE-EXT, SEARCH, SEARCH-EXT and the
ones I was using from TOOLS-EXT, I had past 8K, so I decided I might as well
include DOUBLE, DOUBLE-EXT, STRING, STRING-EXT, LOCAL and LOCAL-EXT.  At
that point, I might as well make a Forth that was useful for as many people
as possible, while not locking it into a particular system.  That's why I
didn't bother with BLOCK, BLOCK-EXT, FACILITY or FACILITY-EXT (leaving that
for the others to write for their system).

Adding more wordsets is not making it useful for as many people as possible.
Leaving out the FACILTY wordset ( SEE DUMP WORDS LOCATE) make a system
virtually unusable.
Using BLOCKS to store all words that belong in a library, that I found extremely
useful. ( WANT ).
Adding D2/ D2* D2> 2VARIABLE is in bad taste. They clutter up the output of
WORDS. Try WORDS in gforth. Can you even check D2* is in there?
Of course traditional formatting words require certain DOUBLE words.

"as many people as possible" . My thought on this, to make it eminently
usable by myself. What I did was writing hundreds of solution programs
to Euler programs, instead of assuming that "more of the standard is better"

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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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 I wasn't sure if it was needed or not.  It just falls pack to PICK anyway.

You can be sure if you needs it, if you use your forth to program, not?

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 -spc

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