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Re: Sets in Forth

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Sets in Forth
Date 2012-02-07 15:44 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2012Feb7.164443@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> writes:
>Is there a way to create a set in Forth?  Of course, there is.  I could 
>do it with a linked list and when a number is chosen, simply reorient 
>the links to/from it, essentially removing it from the list.
>
>Is there another or better way?

A simple array, initialized with numbers 1..24.  Select a random one,
and swap it with the first one.  Select a random one of the remaining
23, and swap it with the next one; repeat until there is only one
remaining number.

- anton
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Sets in Forth Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-07 08:25 -0700
  Re: Sets in Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-02-07 15:44 +0000
    Re: Sets in Forth Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-07 09:49 -0700
    Re: Sets in Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-02-07 19:24 -0800
  Re: Sets in Forth mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2012-02-07 22:12 +0200

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