You're right. The following forms it:
( scratchpad ) 4 B{ 1 2 3 } <displaced-alien> describe
alien instance
"underlying" B{ 1 2 3 }
"expired" f
( scratchpad ) 4 B{ 1 2 3 } <displaced-alien> 8 swap <displaced-alien> describe
alien instance
"underlying" f
"expired" f
I'll push a fix shortly.
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Joe Groff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I do this:
>
> 4 B{ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 } <displaced-alien>
>
> I get a ( displaced-alien ) that points four bytes into that byte
> array, like you'd expect. But if I then do this:
>
> 8 swap <displaced-alien>
>
> I get ALIEN: 12 . It looks like <displaced-alien> assumes the
> underlying alien is absolute and only adds the offsets together,
> forgetting what byte-array it's relative to.
>
> -Joe
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