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Re: ColorForth - another dead end?

From "Rod Pemberton" <fork@lllljunkqwer.cpm>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: ColorForth - another dead end?
Date 2015-05-30 00:14 -0400
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On Fri, 29 May 2015 10:56:04 -0400, Raimond Dragomir  
<raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> wrote:

>> IIRC Stephen Pelc has  powerful C-like struct support in VFX,
>> and these are very useful when interfacing to Windows etc.
>
> C structs are powerful,

...

> C structs are powerful, the fields are associated with the object.

You must specify the struct name and field in C to access the field.
That's true with both of the component selection operators in C:
'.' and '->'

So, what do you mean by "the fields are associated with the object?"

> In forth you cannot have this, fields are global.
> Forth structs are not so powerful.

In C, every data type, struct, union, maps onto an array of bytes.

So, in Forth, you're just accessing structs at the array level,
without the compiler computing offsets for you.


Rod Pemberton
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Moscow, Chicago, New York, and South Africa?

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ColorForth - another dead end? borota@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 12:22 -0700
  Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 14:00 -0700
    Re: ColorForth - another dead end? borota@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 16:18 -0700
      Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 16:45 -0700
      Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-05-24 14:50 -1000
        Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-24 18:12 -0700
          Re: ColorForth - another dead end? onewhohopes@gmail.com - 2015-05-28 13:00 -0700
            Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-28 18:55 -0700
            Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-29 00:49 -0700
              Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 07:56 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-05-29 15:04 +0000
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 10:03 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 10:15 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-29 19:28 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-05-30 12:34 +0000
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-29 19:19 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 22:30 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Rod Pemberton" <fork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-05-30 00:14 -0400
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 22:22 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-05-30 09:27 +0100
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-30 02:05 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-05-30 10:21 +0100
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-30 04:08 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-30 07:43 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-30 09:42 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-30 10:25 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-30 22:36 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-31 16:38 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-05-31 09:11 +0100
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-05-31 11:31 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-06-01 13:21 +0000
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 08:18 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 09:07 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 23:31 -0700
                Field name overloading (was: ColorForth - another dead end?) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-06-02 09:47 +0000
                Re: Field name overloading (was: ColorForth - another dead end?) humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 13:07 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-06-01 08:20 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Rod Pemberton" <fork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-05-30 15:34 -0400
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-29 22:55 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-05-30 00:54 -0700
              Re: ColorForth - another dead end? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-05-30 17:20 +0000
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-05-31 15:17 +0000
        Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Hannu Vuolasaho <vuokkosetae@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 10:06 +0300
        Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-25 11:11 -0700
          Re: ColorForth - another dead end? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 14:22 -0400
            Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-05-25 14:57 -1000
              Re: ColorForth - another dead end? borota@gmail.com - 2015-05-25 20:42 -0700
              Re: ColorForth - another dead end? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-05-29 19:46 -0700
                Re: ColorForth - another dead end? "Rod Pemberton" <fork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-05-30 00:03 -0400
  Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-24 21:51 -0700
    Re: ColorForth - another dead end? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-05-25 11:17 +0000
  Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-05-25 01:50 -0700
    Re: ColorForth - another dead end? Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-25 02:11 -0700
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