[retroforth] Re: 7.5 Development

  • From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@xxxxxx>
  • To: retroforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:22:10 +0200

Charles Childers (2004-10-21 10:37):

> 
> >* Should the interpreter stop executing when it encounters an unknown 
> >word, or report the error and continue?
> >  
> >
> Herkamire (irc.freenode.net, #forth) raised a valid point: we should 
> stop interpreting because serious problems could arise:
> 
> variable my-var
> my-ver @

we don't need to stop interpreting, we need to take appropriate action.
What this is, the system can't know, but the application programmer
will.

s.
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