Trying to use the metaphor

2004-06-18 Thread Troy Rollins
Rev's Cards and stack metaphor can be traced though a long history of stack-based programming. For those of us not entirely familiar with its idiosyncrasies, in can be a bit unfamiliar. For instance, I have a stack of cards, some to be kept, some discarded. In the processing of my program, I

Re: Trying to use the metaphor

2004-06-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 18, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: But, I endeavor to persevere. Is there a better technique than what I've described? Failing that, how does one delete all the marked cards in a stack? Is this the expected technique? repeat with i = 1 to the number of marked cards go

Re: Trying to use the metaphor

2004-06-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 18, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: But, I endeavor to persevere. Is there a better technique than what I've described? Failing that, how does one delete all the marked cards in a stack? Is this the expected technique? repeat with i = 1 to the number of marked cards go

Re: Trying to use the metaphor

2004-06-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/18/04 12:07 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: I started by marking all the cards (??). I then worked with my data a bit, all the while unmarking cards to be kept. My thinking was that the system would allow me to delete marked cards at the end of the cycle. I stupidly thought that delete marked

Re: Trying to use the metaphor

2004-06-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 18, 2004, at 1:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: There is some frustration involved with learning any programming environment, and Rev is full-featured and comprehensive enough to have a learning curve. True enough. But I think some will admit that the curve is actually steeper for those

Re: Trying to use the metaphor

2004-06-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/18/04 1:27 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: I can't tell you how many times I've types myVar = to start setting the value of a variable. This is not the kind of thing even someone _completely_ new to programming would do, simply because they would only know the syntax as defined by Rev. Similarly

Re: Trying to use the metaphor

2004-06-18 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi All, Le 18 juin 04, à 22:15, J. Landman Gay a écrit : On 6/18/04 1:27 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: I can't tell you how many times I've types myVar = to start setting the value of a variable. This is not the kind of thing even someone _completely_ new to programming would do, simply because they