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Re: magic dictionary?

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Scott Prouty wrote:
>
> I suppose this is something like the page device dictionary used for
> "setpagedevice".  Of course the dictioanry passed to "setpagedevice"
> is merged with the device dictionary and then activated at the
> "setpagedevice" call.  So, for example, duplexing can't be activated
> like this:
>
> currentpagedevice /Duplex true put
>
> But of course it can be like this:
>
> <</Duplex true>> setpagedevice
>
> It sounds like NeWS could do the former...

Yes. If currentpagedevice is a magic dictionary, the setpagedevice
could be simply:
/setpagedevice {
  currentpagedevice begin
    {def} forall
  end
} def

But I'm probably getting way ahead of myself worrying about how to
do this. Garbage Collection, expandable dictionaries, deleting keys:
all of these probably need to happen first.

But it is the wild speculation that's the fun part.

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