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- Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jan 27, 2001
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Interesting heads-up, MTS, i may get an idea or two to use in Eu. See 3rd paragraph herein. What alarms me, frankly, is that one of the help "books" online was written by someone with an email addy of microsoft.com. /me waits for the smart ones here to give an opinion on Icon..... I notice the possibility Icon could have been written in Eu, but with more user-friendly features, like a smarter interpreter. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/icon/ Something else i noticed is something i asked about earlier, used in mirc, the ability to execute vars (as if they were a commandline statement, function, or procedure), apparently, *if* the var content is already pre-referenced in main and not coded into the program. I think Eu could do this if the globals vars were referenceable by locked memory pointers, and fed thru a backdoor to a new instance of the interpreter called with the variable contents as the program to exec. Or preferably, resetting the existing instance of the interpreter, storing current state to a stack, to allow better recursion. The required vars used in the exec'd var can be checked, and only those passed to the new instance, to save time and memory. Have you given any more thought to this, Robert? Kat ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01