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Re: Unbalanced [

From Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: Unbalanced [
Date 2013-09-11 17:28 +0100
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anavi8r@gmail.com writes:

> Is this normal? How should this be treated by a PostScript interpreter?

[ just pushes a mark onto the stack. I guess that procedures that look
back on the stack for the mark might find it useful, like counttomark. 
] looks back for the mark to pop the elements for putting into an array.
All marks are the same, they're usually used as a delimiter for the end
of a list for consumption by something else.

-- Mark

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Unbalanced [ anavi8r@gmail.com - 2013-09-11 09:16 -0700
  Re: Unbalanced [ Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2013-09-11 17:28 +0100
  Re: Unbalanced [ Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-09-11 18:34 +0200
  Re: Unbalanced [ luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-11 12:16 -0700
    Re: Unbalanced [ Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-09-12 11:31 +0200
      Re: Unbalanced [ anavi8r@gmail.com - 2013-09-18 10:11 -0700

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