Hello Slava,

thank you very much for your valuable hint!

Now my expression is
==
: sliceIndices ( seqLen sliceLen -- indices )
    2dup swap [a,b] >r - [0,b] r> [ 2array ] 2map ;
==
; and it works like a charm!

Stephan

On 22.02.2008 23:09, Slava Pestov wrote:
> Hi Stephan,
> 
> This is invalid:
> 
> ... >r [ r> ... >r ] some-combinator r> ;
> 
> Combinators use >r/r> internally, and as you can see in the 
> documentation you are only supposed to use >r/r> within a single
> quotation.
> 
> In your case it is better to use 2map instead of 2each, and you won't
>  need to use ?push or V{ } clone or anything like that.
> 
> Also 0 swap [a,b] is already in the library, its called [0,b].
> 
> Slava
> 
> Stephan Rudlof wrote:
>> ! this variant does not work: don't know, why : sliceIndicesn (
>> seqLen sliceLen -- indices ) f >r 2dup swap [a,b] >r - 0 swap [a,b]
>> r> [ 2array r> ?push >r ]  2each r> ;
>> 
>> I don't understand, why the '>r', 'r>' mechanism in the second
>> variant fails: probably because "Concretely, a quotation is an
>> immutable sequence of objects,..." (from the docs). Is there a
>> better alternative to the first variant?
>> 
>> 
>> Regards, Stephan
>> 
> 
> 
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