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From: Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 14:40:00 +0000
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On 2012-11-08 14:34:27 +0000, Mark Wills said:

> On Nov 8, 1:04 pm, Chris Hinsley <chris.hins...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What are people thoughts on having EXIT or in this case multiple EXIT's
>> in the middle of words ? It's not very 'stuctured', but maybe that
>> dosn't matter. It could have a bad effect on simple inlineing Forth's ?
>> ie, if inlining just copys the code of the word inline minus the 'ret'
>> at the end ?
> 
> 
> My novice understanding/opinion of that is: As soon as you determine
> that you need to exit, just exit. Don't the do the "set a flag to be
> caught somewhere else to effect the exit" thing or the "set the loop
> exit condition to make the code drop out at the bottom of the loop"
> thing like you would do in more constrained/highly structured
> languages. There's no shame in EXIT. It's there, so use it ;-)

Yeah. I'm still not keen on introduceing extra taken branches into the 
loop iteration though ! :(

Chris