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From: dwp@willett.UUCP (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: X3J14's BASIS10 def'n for LEAVE
Message-ID: <268.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 19:07:32 GMT
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Thanks to Wil Baden for pointing this out:
As I understand BASIS10, LEAVE will work as follows:

DO .... LEAVE ... DO ... LOOP (b) ... LOOP (c) ...
          |--------------------^
that is, it will jump to point (b) instead of point (c).

WHY?  Surely LEAVE should work the same whether or not the inner DO...LOOP
is explicit or whether it is part of another word, or whether it is 
the result of immediate word execution(s) during compilation?  What benefit
has been gained from this behaviour that will more than offset the utility
which has been lost?  Is there existing practice to justify it?

		-Doug

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