Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ANS Forth - summary of last week's meeting
Message-ID: <3ZV31E2@ggpc2.ferranti.com>
Date: 3 Jun 90 01:54:40 GMT
References: <9006012336.AA21662@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <9006012336.AA21662@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Mitch Bradley <wmb%MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV> writes:
> 	"(" handles multi-line comments when loading from text files.

Ick. Multi-line comments are a botch anyway, and this prevents some
interesting (in terms of hacking the implementation) uses.

> 	New error handling wordset containing the words "CATCH" and
> 	"THROW" for "non-local exits".  Similar in purpose to C's
> 	"setjmp(),longjmp()", but better ("CATCH" and "THROW" don't
>  	require the allocation of global memory as do setjmp()/longjmp(),
> 	and thus are nestable).

Setjmp and longjmp do not require the allocation of global memory. What
makes you think they do?
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