Re: QUIT and ABORT

Gerry Jackson <do-not-use@swldwa.uk> writes:

On 24/05/2025 16:12, Anton Ertl wrote:

There is a test suite (maintained by Gerry Jackson) that tests a
system for standards conformance, but as Dijkstra said, tests can only
prove the presence of bugs, not their absence.

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I lack the time and interest to carry on maintaining the test suite and,
as I reported to the Forth 200X committee last September, would like to
pass it on to someone else. As the committee has failed to identify
anybody are there any voluteers? I presume it would need committee approval.

My notes from the September meeting say:

     * How can we better support a Forth-200x Standard Test Suite?
       (hand over form Gerry Jackson to a new maintainer)

       We github-fork Gerry Jackson's test suite in the Committee
       account (Action: GW)

       Reorganize the test suite such that it can be split into the
       parts relevant for a word's glossary entry (Action: PK, GW)

Anyway, AFAIK nothing has been done yet.  In any case, thank you for
maintaining the test suite for so many years.

- anton
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