Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rod Pemberton Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: EXIT THEN Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:25:40 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 22 Message-ID: <20170217192540.2e9034f4@_> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ZTD62cW/Uw8bymX5ok+0NA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:54947 On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 02:40:49 -0800 (PST) Heinrich Hohl wrote: > I think EXIT-THEN would be the best name. Because this is exactly > what it does. > > I would of course never use it because I already have EXIT and THEN > separately. ENDIF ? THEXIT ? FI ? I posit that QUIT is truly the best name for it. Unfortunately, QUIT has historical usage. Rod Pemberton -- All it takes for humanity to conquer the world's toughest problems is to hope, to believe, to share, and to do, in cooperation.