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| From | stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Strings (was: Words consuming arguments) |
| Message-ID | <50a585a5.322394474@192.168.0.50> (permalink) |
| References | (6 earlier) <50a3979c.195921062@192.168.0.50> <382aa55e-7d0f-41ec-942b-e825573591f2@r10g2000pbd.googlegroups.com> <9005caf6-9a4a-45e6-9d8d-9d07a7f7a3ee@c20g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> <2012Nov15.161816@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <k83tv1$qma$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
| Date | 2012-11-16 00:36 +0000 |
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:35:02 -0500, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> wrote: >"Anton Ertl" <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote in message >news:2012Nov15.161816@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at... > >> [...] Unfortunately, apart from >> C" and WORD, there are hardly any words that produce counted strings; >> there is no word for turning a c-addr u string into a counted string >> in the standard, and if you define it yourself, you run into the >> memory management problem (that's probably also why there is no such >> word in the standard): You need to put the counted string in some >> unused memory area, and can only reclaim that memory when it's no >> longer used. > >Wow, I'm amazed! > >Someone here finally provided the reason null-terminated strings would be >better than counted strings in Forth... For practical applications, all Forth standards to date have been inadequate for commercial level string handling. However, Anton's statement "there is no word for turning a c-addr u string into a counted string" ignores the common practice word PLACE \ src srclen dest -- See: http://forth.sourceforge.net/mirror/comus/ See also the string library at http://code.google.com/p/ffl/ which is linked from FLAG http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/ Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, stephenXXX@mpeforth.com MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time 133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England tel: +44 (0)23 8063 1441, fax: +44 (0)23 8033 9691 web: http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads
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