Hi Alexander, Ha! That last code snippet got me to where I needed to get :-) THANKS!!
(Now when I close my eyes I see pilog - what does that mean?) Cheers, Doug --- On Wed, 6/22/11, Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Alexander Burger <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: embedding minipicolisp > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 12:28 AM > Hi Doug, > > > I can then doPrint() on what doRead() returns - > although I don't see > > the customary parentheses around the list I hand that > to doEval(). > > Calling the high-level Lisp function 'doEval' is not a good > idea, > because it first evaluates its arguments, which is not what > is needed > here. > > The same is the case for 'doRead', but it doesn't do much > harm if you > just pass it NIL (i.e. no arguments). And also for > 'doPrint': If you > pass it something other than a number, if will print not > that item but > its value. Better just call 'print()' for debugging. > > So instead of calling 'doEval', you could do > > any res; > cell c1; > > Push(c1, doRead(Nil)); > x = EVAL(data(c1)); > drop(c1); > return x; > > > > doEval() returns a value (an "any" pointer, which when > cast to a long is 6 which seems odd). > > '6' is a valid 'any', the number '1': > > num > xxxxxx10 > 2 > 00000110 > > Cheers, > - Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe > -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe
