... Hendrix) wrote: Jonah Thomas <jethom...@gmail.com> writes Re: Duff's device [Re: More fun with Miser's CASE] Yes, and he had to use tricks that aren't portable. I think ...strange things and so potentially a lot of nonstandard code could be a lot more portable than it first appears. If you come up with an elegant nonstandard ...

On 14 Jun, 15:42, m...@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) wrote: Jonah Thomas <jethom...@gmail.com> writes Re: Duff's device [Re: More fun with Miser's CASE] Gerry <ge...@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: Jonah Thomas <jethom...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm not sure I understand the point of Duff's ...

mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) wrote: Jonah Thomas <jethomas5@gmail.com> writes Re: Duff's device [Re: More fun with Miser's CASE] Gerry <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: I haven't had a chance to look at Marcel's solution in detail but isn't that what he does? Yes, and he had to use tricks...

Jonah Thomas <jethomas5@gmail.com> writes Re: Duff's device [Re: More fun with Miser's CASE] Gerry <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: Jonah Thomas <jethom...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm not sure I understand the point of Duff's device. [..] so that we could actually put the address of the code into a jump table and actually jump to ...

Gerry <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> writes Re: Duff's device [Re: More fun with Miser's CASE] On 12 Jun, 18:54, Ian Osgood <i...@quirkster.com> wrote: [...] Actually, I've never mastered meta-programming that requires carnal knowledge of the flow control internals (besides some of the tricks you can play with WHILE-ELSE-THEN). I honestly ...

...orig ] then ; drop 0 constant CASE immediate 0 constant COND immediate...Examples \ hex : TEST1 ( n ) space case cond 0 20 range 7F...cond ; immediate : TEST2 ( n ) space case cond [char] 0 [char] 9...0 .( ) dup emit test2 : test3 CASE 1 OF ." One " ENDOF 2...might be fun sometime to add your Miser CASE words to...

... the data stack (if any). That would then make your Miser's case ANS Forth compliant and so portable Wouldn't that only work on ... (?) I'm not sure a truly portable Miser can be done given the current CS wordset. Miser probably doesn't need to be portable. As long .... I personally don't need portability for Case (which isn't to say it shouldn't ...

...for control stack items on the data stack (if any). That would then make your Miser's case ANS Forth compliant and so portable Wouldn't that only work on a system that implemented...on the data stack (?) I'm not sure a truly portable Miser can be done given the current CS wordset. Miser probably doesn't need to be portable. As long as there's ...

... for control stack items on the data stack (if any). That would then make your Miser's case ANS Forth compliant and so portable Wouldn't that only work on a system that implemented ... on the data stack (?) I'm not sure a truly portable Miser can be done given the current CS wordset. Miser probably doesn't need to be portable. As long as there's enough ...

.../thread/86fec45f83b17545/9bea8e7cc5464a06?hl=en&lnk=st&q=depth#9bea8e7cc5464a06 to calculate the number of cells used for control stack items on the data stack (if any). That would then make your Miser's case ANS Forth compliant and so portable [...] Gerry