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Re: ABORT" ABORT QUIT THROW and all that

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Ed wrote:

> 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.

ABORT" throws -2 (see 9.6.2.0680).  Thus it can be distinguished from ABORT, 
and the standard says that the message ccc should be displayed if there is 
no corresponding CATCH.

: test true abort" blabla" ;  ok
test 
:2: blabla
>>>test<<<
Backtrace:
$7F445C4E6320 throw 
$7F445C550E38 c(abort") 

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
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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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