On Friday 12 January 2007 00:31, Slava Pestov wrote: > On 11-Jan-07, at 6:45 PM, Eduardo Cavazos wrote:
> > : #foo ( -- ... ) ! Call the value of foo. E.g. "foo" get call > I don't like this. It's a little far out. It's a feature waiting for a problem. :-) > > In the old vars system, VAR: foo in addition to making getter and > > setter > > words, also setup up foo to be a symbol. In the system I changed it > > so "foo" > > is used as the variable. > I also don't like this. Yeah, Chris made me think about this. > > The main reason I was defining a symbol foo was to > > for let, but I might remove let anyway. > You can make let compile, though. Well actually, it wasn't because of the let compile error that I was going to remove it. It's because I think it's clearer to write out what let was doing. Let was another feature waiting for a problem. I didn't really use it that much. > > I might make a parsing word for something like let: > > > > (( a b c )) will expand into >c >b >a > > > > : foo (( a b c )) > > > > a> b> * a> c> * + b> - ; > I don't like this either :-) That's another far out thing. Just messing around. The stuff that "you don't like" I definately acknowledge as being experimental. Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
