Re: CATCH

Oops. Yes. My original example had three items on the stack;
then I simplified *some* of the code ;^)

Thanks,
Rick

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On 4/4/2001 at 12:48 PM Mike Ghan wrote:

>Thanks for the replies Elizabeth and Rick. After some further study, I
>believe this is sinking in.
>
>However, in Rick's example I think there is an extra DROP. If CATCH
>returns non-zero, the stack depth would equal the stack depth before the
>CATCH plus one for the return code. In other words, the stack depth
>will be restored but the stack *content* is indeterminate.

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