Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words

From	Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Date	2012-11-08 19:36 +0000
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Subject	Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words

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On 2012-11-08 18:04:30 +0000, Josh Grams said:

> Chris Hinsley wrote: <201211081406178276-chrishinsley@gmailcom>
>> On 2012-11-08 13:54:42 +0000, Josh Grams said:
>>> Chris Hinsley wrote: <2012110713421835115-chrishinsley@gmailcom>
>>>> Folks I have implamented an Amiga style double linked list words set a
>>>> few days back and I have an emueration word as follows:
>>>> 
>>>> \ ( u xt lh -- ln | 0)
>>>> \ xt api is ( u ln lh -- ln | 0 )
>>>> : LISTHEAD-ENUMERATE-FORWARDS
>>>> 	0 >R
>>>> 	DUP LISTHEAD-GET-HEAD DUP
>>>> 	BEGIN
>>>> 		NIP DUP LISTNODE-GET-SUCC
>>>> 		DUP
>>>> 	WHILE
>>>> 		4 PICK 2 PICK 4 PICK
>>>> 		6 PICK EXECUTE DUP R!
>>>> 	UNTIL THEN
>>>> 	2DROP 2DROP DROP
>>>> 	R>
>>>> ;
>>> 
>>> And just out of curiosity, why are you calling GET-HEAD and then
>>> GET-SUCC before you do anything?  Doesn't that skip the first list node?
>> 
>> I'm keeping a 'look ahead' pointer to the next node in the list, as the
>> callback is allowed to trash the current node ! For instance it could
>> remove the node and then your left dangling !
> 
> Ah, I see.  I thought you were keeping the previous one and getting the
> successor of that after the XT returned.  Guess I didn't untangle the
> PICKs carefully enough.
> 
> Hrm...I still think it's wrong...unless LISTNODE-GET-SUCC does something
> really strange like ( node node -- node.next node ), then your WHILE is
> checking the successor to see if it's null, so you won't process the
> final element in the list...?  Or am I missing something again?
> 
> --Josh

An Amiga style list header has 3 fields the middle one allways 0. It 
represents the SUCC of the final node and the PRED of the first node. 
Imagine it to be list two partial overlapping list nodes, the PRED of 
the SUCC overlap and are 0.

Chris

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Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 13:42 +0000
  Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 13:51 +0000
    Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 13:56 +0000
  Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-07 13:55 +0000
    Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 15:29 +0000
      Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 15:35 +0000
    Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 15:32 +0000
    Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 15:37 +0000
      Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-08 16:31 +0000
        Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 17:02 +0000
          Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-08 17:07 +0000
          Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 01:16 -0800
    Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 15:41 +0000
      Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-08 16:39 +0000
  Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 08:07 -0800
    Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 12:52 +0000
  Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 13:04 -0800
    Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 13:04 +0000
      Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Mark Wills <forthfreak@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 06:34 -0800
        Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:40 +0000
    Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 13:14 +0000
      Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 13:23 +0000
      Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Ouatu Bogdan <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 13:45 +0000
        Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 13:59 +0000
        Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:02 +0000
          Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 15:35 +0000
            Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 16:24 +0000
              Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 16:39 +0000
                Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 16:57 +0000
                Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-11-08 07:56 -1000
  Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2012-11-08 13:54 +0000
    Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:06 +0000
      Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2012-11-08 18:04 +0000
        Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 19:36 +0000
        Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 19:38 +0000
          Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 19:42 +0000
    Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:11 +0000
      Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:31 +0000
        Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:51 +0000
          Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2012-11-08 18:23 +0000
            Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 19:57 +0000
            Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 20:04 +0000
              Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 20:17 +0000
                Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 20:29 +0000
                Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 20:50 +0000

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