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ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

either way, we're going to have to solve the problem of trapping exit, the word which "returns" from words that are implemented in Forth (as opposed to machine-code words)

"returns" is in quotes because of the usual thing about the Forth threaded-execution model. words don't so much return as they jump directly into whatever their caller wants to do next.