On 13-May-02, Ladislav Mecir wrote: > Hi all,
> the discussion on block parsing reminds me of one block-parsing > specific problem. Let's suppose, that I want to find out, whether a > parsed block contains a sequence of values like e.g. [1 a: :a] > Attempt #1: > parse [1 a: :a] [1 a: :a] ; == false > Attempt #2: > parse [1 a: :a] [1 1 1 1 1 a: 1 1 :a] ; == true That at least could be shorterned to... parse [1 a: :a] [1 1 1 1 a: 1 :a] ; == true > We see, that the second attempt worked. This solution doesn't work, > if I want to test, whether the block contains a specific lit-word > like e.g. 'a. > Attempt # 3: > parse ['a] [1 1 'a] ; == false Nope - can't find a solution... ): > Summary: for the complicated cases it would be nice to have > something like (hypothetic!): > parse [1 2 3] [literally [1 2 3]] ; == true Yes, a good idea. -- Carl Read -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
