1. RE: comparison stacks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kat [mailto:gertie at PELL.NET]
> <sigh>
> Ok, in the irc client, to handle the numerics from the
> server, the stack will
> start with one "if", end with an "end if", and have *600*
> "elsif" in between.
> Isn't that a little incredible?
>
> Robert, with a "execute var" and a "goto", i could extract
> the numeric value,
> then goto it. With smart code in the interpreter, or other
> error recovery, if that
> numeric isn't provided for, it simply returns"".
You can accomplish this through routine_id. Set up an associative list.
One sequence holds your values, the other the routine id's. Then, you can
use find() (or a b-search, etc) to determine where to go. It's also easy to
add to. I used this scheme in matheval (in the archives) to parse and
evaluate mathematical expressions.
Matt Lewis
