Ah cool - that makes sense now. Thanks!
Doug Coleman wrote:
> with* is for use with assoc-map and assoc-each. Using the normal
> with, the stack looks like
>
> key
> obj
> value
>
> but with* makes it
>
> obj
> key
> value
>
> like you might expect. And you can call with* many times in a row for:
>
> obj
> obj
> obj
> key
> value
>
>
> 100 10 { { 1 2 } { 3 4 } } [ >r + + r> ] with* with* assoc-map
>
> Ed is experimenting with a way to generalize with/with*/curry etc.
>
> Doug
>
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 5:09 AM, Phil Dawes wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm struggling to see the point of with* from combinators.lib in
>> the git
>> repo:
>>
>> : with* ( obj assoc quot -- assoc curry )
>> swapd [ [ -rot ] dip call ] 2curry ; inline
>>
>> As far as I can see, it takes an element from the 2nd position in the
>> stack, and curries it into the 3rd inside the quotation.
>>
>> On the other hand I could see the point of the following:
>>
>> : my-with* ( param obj obj quot -- obj obj curry )
>> [ rot ] dip [ [ -rot ] dip call ] 2curry ; inline
>>
>> (which is 'with' one space to the left). Is the with* in the repo a
>> mistake, and if not, what's is its purpose?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
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