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Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now?

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now?
Date 2016-04-25 14:23 -0700
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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
> I have never seen separate tasks for send and receive.  But you're
> quite right, it doesn't work with full duplex.  

Interesting, wonder why they did it that way, given how lightweight
Forth tasks are.

> If you want that, you have to do something different.  (This is a case
> of the more general rule which is not to over-generalize solutions:
> just do the simple thing that you need.) 

I think it's simpler to use two tasks than use extra logic to keep track
of which way the port is going, swap directions, etc.  I've always done
it with two (not in Forth yet though) and it's quite natural.

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