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Re: How to rewrite this

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From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject	Re: How to rewrite this
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Op Wednesday 20 Aug 2014 13:08 CEST schreef Herbert Voss:

>> I thought to rewrite this neatly like this:
>> gsave
>> 20  20  translate
>> 4 {
>> -5   -5  moveto
>> 0  -20  lineto
>> 5   -5  lineto
>> 90  rotate
>> } repeat
>> closepath
>> fill
>> grestore
>>
>> But then only four triangles are filled and the square in the
>> middle is not. I could of-course fill the square also, but I was
>> wondering if there is a better way.
>
>
> 200  200  translate
> 10 dup scale
> -5   -5  moveto
> 4 {
> 5  -15  rlineto
> 5   15  rlineto
> 90  rotate
> } repeat
> closepath
> fill

How stupid of me, I put the moveto in the loop instead of before
it. >:-(

Thanks a bundle.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

Thread

How to rewrite this Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2014-08-19 19:02 +0200
  Re: How to rewrite this jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2014-08-20 00:43 -0700
  Re: How to rewrite this Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@alumni.tu-berlin.de> - 2014-08-20 13:08 +0200
    Re: How to rewrite this Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2014-08-20 15:28 +0200
  Re: How to rewrite this tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2014-08-30 01:47 -0400
  Re: How to rewrite this luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-29 23:43 -0700
    Re: How to rewrite this luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-30 01:23 -0700
      Re: How to rewrite this Terry White <TW382@aol.com> - 2014-09-01 09:43 +0100
        Re: How to rewrite this luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2014-09-01 18:20 -0700
          Re: How to rewrite this Terry White <TW382@aol.com> - 2014-09-02 11:58 +0100

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