[OT] Writing a parser for BASIC in Smalltalk/Squeak ? (<CSOTD > included)

Withers, Robert rwithers at quallaby.com
Thu Jan 10 01:41:52 UTC 2002


Oops, I meant these bytecodes:

<4B> push 2
<4D> store local 1; pop
<D8 03> push 3
<4C> store local 0; pop
<10> push local 0
<11> push local 1
<4C> store local 0; pop
<10> push local 0
<A0> send +
<4D> store local 1; pop
<11> push local 1
<65> return

r

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Withers, Robert 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:40 PM
> To: 'squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org'
> Subject: RE: [OT] Writing a parser for BASIC in Smalltalk/Squeak ?
> (<CSOTD> included)
> 
> 
> Tim,  I don't agree.  Don't rely on books so much {raspberry 
> sound effects} ;-)  Consider that in:
> 
> | m n  |
> n := 2.
> m := 3.
> n := m + (m := n).
> 
> m is the receiver of the plus message and not another 
> argument, as in your example, so it gets pushed onto the 
> stack before the arguments are evaluated, inline.  My C++ 
> example was really wrong, and let's just forget about that, please.
> 
> check out these bytecodes:
> 
> <77> pushConstant: 2
> <69> popIntoTemp: 1
> <20> pushConstant: 3
> <68> popIntoTemp: 0
> <10> pushTemp: 0
> <11> pushTemp: 1
> <81 40> storeIntoTemp: 0
> <B0> send: +
> <81 41> storeIntoTemp: 1
> <7C> returnTop
> 
> rob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Rowledge [mailto:tim at sumeru.stanford.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:22 PM
> > To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > Subject: Re: [OT] Writing a parser for BASIC in Smalltalk/Squeak ?
> > (<CSOTD> included)
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry guys, but by inspection, deduction, induction, reductio ad
> > absurdum, bivariant algorithmic analysis, flim-flam and 
> fiat, you are
> > wrong. So there. {raspberry sound effects}
> > 
> > Expressions in () are supposed to be _completed_ before the 
> > rest of the
> > expression is executed.
> > 
> >   foo doThisWith: a and: (a _ fribble slander)
> > should be identical to
> >   a_ fribble slander.
> >   foo doThisWith: a and: a
> > 
> > Suggesting anything else is a symptom of advanced senility. 
> It says so
> > in this book right here.
> > 
> > tim
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, 
http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Useful random insult:- Couldn't balance a checkbook if 
> Einstein helped.
> 
> 
> 




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