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Re: ABORT" ABORT QUIT THROW and all that

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Albert van der Horst wrote:
> ...
> It seems to be a bit of a missnomer. It is *not* an
> ABORT adorned with a message. All ABORT" signify situations
> where I want to give the user a second chance, after he
> has seen the message.
> In other words a ABORT" is bound to be caught, not abort.
> Fortunately the standard defines ABORT" as a THROW with
> a special code.

Left uncaught, ABORT" is required to execute ABORT which
in turn executes QUIT.  It is my understanding that if caught,
ABORT" will *not* print the message associated with it.

In my system uncaught errors eventually execute (abort) which
looks something like this:

    : (abort)  ( -- )  s0 @ sp! fs0 @ fsp ! ... quit ;

Typically a turnkey would modify QUIT so that the app exits
back to the OS, perhaps with an error code.

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ABORT" ABORT QUIT THROW and all that albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-10-28 13:12 +0000
  Re: ABORT" ABORT QUIT THROW and all that "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-10-29 16:01 +1100
    Re: ABORT" ABORT QUIT THROW and all that Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-10-29 16:52 +0100
      Re: ABORT" ABORT QUIT THROW and all that "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-10-30 12:01 +1100
  Re: ABORT" ABORT QUIT THROW and all that "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-11-02 12:55 +1100

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