On Aug 18, 8:05 pm, Elizabeth D Rather <erat...@forth.com> wrote: > On 8/18/10 2:23 PM, Standish P wrote: > > > On Aug 17, 6:38 pm, John Passaniti<john.passan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> You asked if Forth "borrowed" lists from Lisp. It did not. In Lisp, > >> lists are constructed with pair of pointers called a "cons cell". > >> That is the most primitive component that makes up a list. Forth has > >> no such thing; in Forth, the dictionary (which is traditionally, but > >> not necessarily a list) is a data structure that links to the previous > >> word with a pointer. > > > Would you show me a picture, ascii art or whatever for Forth ? I know > > what lisp lists look like so I dont need that for comparison. Forth > > must have a convention and a standard or preferred practice for its > > dicts. However, let me tell you that in postscript the dictionaries > > can be nested inside other dictionaries and any such hiearchical > > structure is a nested associative list, which is what linked list, > > nested dictionaries, nested tables are. > > You indicated that you have a copy of Forth Application Techniques. > Sections 8.1 and 8.2 cover this topic, with some drawings.
Can someone send me a scan copy of sec 8.1 to 8.2 within the exemption in the copyright law for my personal study and evaluation of the book only. I have only looked at the book cover on forth site and its table of contents on amazon. why elase would I ask where it is if I had a copy and would go directly to index assuming it has a good indexing. Alternative, a link to an open source of explanation would be requested. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list