On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Mayson Lancaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a Factor newcomer, I'm having some difficulty figuring out how to express
> myself idiomatically.
> Here's an example, my first crack at a word to return the sum of a sequence
> of numbers on the stack.
> USING: kernel assocs namespaces math sequences prettyprint ;
> IN: mayson
> SYMBOL: mysum
> : sequence-sum ( seq -- sum )
> 0 mysum set
> mysum get [ + mysum set ] curry each mysum get ;
> It seems to work, but two things look wrong to me: the (semi-)global
> variable, and the necessity of using a curry.
Your version doesn't do the right thing; it merely outputs the last
element of a sequence:
( scratchpad ) { 1 2 3 } sequence-sum .
3
( scratchpad ) { 4 7 -2 } sequence-sum .
-2
See if you can figure out why :-)
> Are there any reasonably Factorial ways to clean this up?
Take a look at some of the code in basis and extra for examples of
Factor code. These in particular are quite nice:
basis/tools/hexdump
basis/base64
basis/smtp
extra/roman
extra/rot13
extra/time-server
Remember that some of these have docs (eg, "smtp" about), and if you
see a library word in there you don't understand, you can look up its
help in the listener,
\ pad-left help
Once you feel more adventurous, you can take a look at the web
framework ("furnace" about) and the optimizing compiler
(basis/compiler/). Both are examples of non-trivial applications
written in Factor using a variety of stack idioms.
Have fun,
Slava
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