Re: portable or not? Volatile strings

In article <nnd$274f6c32$10db022f@ea48fe6bf4bc59ed>,
Hans Bezemer  <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> wrote:

On 13-08-2024 06:07, dxf wrote:

On 13/08/2024 5:34 am, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

...
In my book the code should be
>
                         "        "
                         "######  "
                         "  ##    "
                         "        "
DEF-BRICK BRICK1
>
Instead of
>
DEF-BRICK BRICK1        S"         "
                         S" ######  "
                         S"   ##    "
                         S"         "
>
The code (untested) could be
: DEF-BRICK CREATE
     2>R 2>R 2>R 2>R
     2R> ,, 2R> ,, 2R> ,, 2R> ,,
  DOES>  ... ;

>
OTOH it's no less difficult to write...
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: M"  [CHAR] " PARSE  HERE  OVER ALLOT  SWAP MOVE ;
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: DEF-BRICK  CREATE  DOES>  ROT 4 * ROT + 2* CHARS + ;
>
DEF-BRICK BRICK1         M"         "
                          M" ######  "
                          M"   ##    "
                          M"         "
>

>
In 4tH, the easiest solution would be:
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: BRICK@ ROT + @C SWAP 2* CHARS + ;
>
CREATE BRICK1
  ,"         "
  ," ######  "
  ,"   ##    "
  ,"         "
DOES> BRICK@ ;

I dislike the use of parsing here by ," . It happens to work
because ," doesn't destroy the concatenation of HERE.
So you couldn't check the solution without digging into the 4TH
documentation.

In these case parsing is more or less advantageous because it allows
easier represent the bricks. The introduction of an auxiliary word M"
that is easily understood and checked is far superior using ," .

I changed my version to use the proposed M" now and it works fine.

>
I could throw a bit of preprocessor magic in the mix, so it would
resemble your solution even closer, but I guess you can do without ;-)
>
Hans Bezemer

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