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Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Genral advise and comments on callback style words
Date 2012-11-08 17:07 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2012Nov8.180733@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> writes:
>On 2012-11-08 16:31:34 +0000, Anton Ertl said:
>> It's even more flexible if you avoid any internal data on the data
>> stack during the callback, because that allows passing an arbitrary
>> number of stack elements into and out of the callback, not just one.
...
>Yes, but then surely there will just be similar issues with marshalling 
>multiple paramaters on the data stack in the callback and an arguement 
>for just passing in a structure pointer and letting the callback 
>accsess that structure as required ?

I don't know what you mean with "marshalling" here, it's different
from the usage of the word I am familiar with.  If it's more
convenient to pass a pointer to a structure, then do that, but often
it's more convenient to pass the stuff directly on the stack.

> It all get's tricky to judge the 
>best approach, but I have this API used in other projects in C/C++, so 
>kind of like the familiarity of how it works.

Sure, in C/C++ you have no choice.  But just because these languages
have this limitation, there is no reason to apply the same limitation
in Forth if it can be avoided.

- anton
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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
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    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
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        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
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