On Jan 28, 2008 4:32 PM, Jorge Acereda Maciá <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > After spending a couple of days with Factor a couple of (probably > silly) questions come to mind: > > - Why does it use getters and setters instead of explicit words? > (i.e, "my-tuple-field / set-my-tuple-field" instead of "my-tuple- > field get / my-tuple-field set"). > get and set take symbols (or any object) and look things up in a table of the values of dynamically scoped variables. They don't do anything with addresses, as the corresponding words in Forth would.
> How would you write something like this? > > : toggle ( addr -- ) dup @ 0= swap ! ; : toggle ( variable -- ) [ not ] change ; > > - Why does it use "-" as the tuple/field separator? (i.e, "stream- > parameters-frequency instead of something like stream-parameters/ > frequency). I think using the second form (like REBOL does) would > make sources easier to read (the tuple part is easier to identify). > > TIA, > Jorge Acereda That's a reasonable idea. There might be a big overhaul of tuple setters soon, letting you completely leave out the tuple class name, but personally I like that idea a lot. I hope this helps! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
