[retroforth] Re: factoring request
- From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@xxxxxx>
- To: retroforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:37:58 +0200
Charles Childers (2004-10-26 14:30):
>
> >>What's so bad about hyphens? We already have a couple of words (zt-make
> >>and zt-free) with hyphens.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >are those words? :-) scnr
> >
> >
> Yes.
btw: we were only making fun with creat and reate ...
>
> >hyphens per se are not bad, but they often indicate opportuninty for
> >refactoring. A good name for the historical word CREATE would be
> >PARSE-CREATE since it does two things.
> >
> >The words for handling zero-terminated strings in SwiftForth start
> >with Z only, like ZPLACE or ZAPPEND ...
> >
> What does SwiftForth call the words to turn a counted string into a zero
> terminated one, and to free up the memory used?
hmmm... good question. In my Windows apps I usually start out
with zero terminated strings and then use zcount ( z -- a n ).
Re memory: SwiftForth usually uses dynamic allocation for
temporary string storage, so the usual FREE ( a -- ior ) suffices.
s.
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