Re: Programming Style

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Programming Style
Date	2013-06-15 12:14 -0400
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On 6/14/2013 10:54 PM, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> On 6/14/13 1:22 PM, rickman wrote:
>> On 6/14/2013 7:03 PM, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
>>> On 6/12/13 5:14 AM, rickman wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> That is why I said "the spec didn't elucidate much". I don't think
>>>> reading source code is the way to learn about techniques... If I wanted
>>>> to learn programming by reading source code, I would be using Linux.
>>>>
>>>
>>> A Standard is not intended as a tutorial. You learn programming by
>>> reading books & articles, reading source code, and trying things.
>>
>> I never said any different. I said I was looking for more info.
>>
>> Looking at code that uses words like CATCH and THROW can be
>> illustrative, but I find trying to reverse engineer functions by looking
>> at their source code is a very ineffective use of time. If I were more
>> expert at using Forth maybe that wouldn't be true, but I am trying to
>> use Forth, not become a guru at it.
>>
>
> That article that you posted the link to was pretty clear, I thought.
> There's also a discussion (with a simple example) in Forth Programmer's
> Handbook.

If you mean the Milendorf paper, that was someone else's link.  Thanks 
for reminding me.  I have a copy of Forth's Programmer Handbook and I 
want to dig it out while I'm in the office.  I'm not sure where it is. 
It might be packed in a bag somewhere from when I intended to read it on 
a trip.

> Is there a particular example you're having trouble understanding?

It's not an issue of not understanding what I've read, the issue it 
learning how to use the words.  For example, in my code I have many 
places where an error can happen and I want to exit the entire word in 
that case so the test can start over.  It is not clear from what I have 
read that I can insert many THROWs with one CATCH.  I think some of what 
I've read in Milendorf's paper implies that but I haven't seen an 
example.  The examples are all very simple with one THROW and one CATCH. 
  Milendorf talks about separating the system errors and passing those 
on to the system, so I assume that implies that you can have a many to 
many relationship of THROW and CATCH.

-- 

Rick

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