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3.4 Language differences

If onyx is being run interactively:

- The name ``stop'' is redefined in the initial thread's errordict to recursively evaluate the stdin file in a stopped context in order to keep the interpreter from exiting on error. It is possible (though generally unlikely, since the user must type a very long line of code) for buffering of stdin to cause strange things to occur; any additional program execution after an error is a result of this.
- The name ``resume'' is defined in the initial thread's threaddict as an alias to the stop operator. Thus, when an error occurs, when the user is ready to continue running after addressing any issues the error caused, resume can be called as a more intuitive name for resuming.
- The name ``promptstring'' is defined in systemdict; it takes no arguments and returns a string. The return string is used as the interactive prompt. For the duration of the call to promptstring, a temporary definition called ``promptdict'' is stored in the top dictionary on dstack, as a side effect of the machinery that makes the interpreter somewhat resilient to errors during the call to promptstring.

If onyx is being run non-interactively:

- The name ``stop'' in errordict is redefined to call the die operator with an argument of 1.

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