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Re: save ... restore? setglobal?

From Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: save ... restore? setglobal?
Organization man
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Message-ID <m21t6xiron.fsf@metalevel.at> (permalink)
Date 2016-03-26 09:12 +0100

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jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> writes:

> I maintain a large PostScript program (≈ 12.7k lines).
> http://www.jdawiseman.com/placemat.html
> It does not use save … restore. Indeed, I have never used save …
> restore in any PostScript program.
>
> Do you use save … restore? What for? For what should I be using it?

I have written many PostScript programs and, although I am aware of
their existence, have never even once used save and restore. I can
imagine that these operators are useful in certain cases, for example
when you generate documents automatically using different sources.

For other points, I agree with what luser- -droog has written.

Good question, and thank you for persisting!

All the best,
Markus

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save ... restore? setglobal? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-03-25 09:05 -0700
  Re: save ... restore? setglobal? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-25 09:32 -0700
    Re: save ... restore? setglobal? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-03-25 10:41 -0700
      Re: save ... restore? setglobal? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-25 11:16 -0700
        Re: save ... restore? setglobal? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-03-25 11:41 -0700
          Re: save ... restore? setglobal? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 02:38 -0700
            Re: save ... restore? setglobal? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-02 16:08 -0700
        Re: save ... restore? setglobal? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2016-03-26 12:07 -0600
  Re: save ... restore? setglobal? Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-03-26 09:12 +0100
    Re: save ... restore? setglobal? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-03-26 06:37 -0700
      Re: save ... restore? setglobal? Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-03-27 14:51 +0200
  Re: save ... restore? setglobal? sjprouty3765@gmail.com - 2016-03-28 12:40 -0700

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