David Gamey

Assuming that it's """...""" , obviously many characters need to be escaped (hex, controls, etc.), but would it be necessary/required to escape every single instances of double quotes or could optional escaping of quotes work. For example, would it look like 1 or 2 below (hopefully 1): """ blah "xyz" \""" ... more blah""" """ blah \"xyz\" \"\"\" ... more blah""" The first looks cleaner by optionally escaping the first (or any quote) to break the """ token. David On Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 09:58:34...

Wouldn't you need a way to escape the delimiter? On Oct 25, 2022 14:45, Jafar <jafaral@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:I like the triple quotes idea. This is how some languages like python deals with such strings. How hard is it to add this to Unicon front-end syntax @jeffery ? --- [Writing long strings exactly how they appear](https://sourceforge.net/p/unicon/discussion/general/thread/dbaea37031/?limit=25#5c5c) --- Sent from sourceforge.net because you indicated interest in <https://sourceforge.net/p/unicon/discussion/general/>...

I'd consider it.There are a lot of files on there. On Apr 26, 2022 19:50, Brian Tiffin <btiffin@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:If you do, David, and might we willing to loan it out for a while, I'm going to pester the Hercules crowd (lot's of old hardware tinkerers, and heritage museum types). Would you be willing to loan it out? I trust the Hercules crowd to show the proper respect, but that's third party hearsay, so... ;-) Have good, Blue --- [Old Icon, S/360 or S/370](https://sourceforge.net/p/unicon/discussion/general/thread/680d26943e/?limit=25#26b6/9950/abba/aadf)...

I have a 3400 foot reel. Doubt it will read even if I could find a drive.David On Apr 26, 2022 15:43, Brian Tiffin <btiffin@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:I'd wave pom poms and jump up and down in excitement if anyone could find those. :-) The Hercules emulator crowd are racing ahead with improvements to the public domain MVS 3.8 system and VM/370 systems. A full on Rexx, in BRexx, multiple transaction control systems ala CICS, in KICKS and a competitor alike system. Networking via extensions to emulated...

Rosetta can be a fun distraction. I've also found it useful in a practical sense. A number of years ago, a colleague was writing something in C# and hit a snag. I knew icon had a simple solution, so I looked for a Rosetta task that used the technique and then pivoted to the c# solution David On Apr. 14, 2020 00:54, Brian Tiffin <btiffin@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:Yeah, that was me, David. I posted it last night. A visit to Rosetta started this entire side-track. But, I lazed out and did not create...

I just realized there is a Rosetta code snusp task http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Execute_SNUSP#Icon_and_UniconDavid On Apr. 13, 2020 14:10, Brian Tiffin <btiffin@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:It is, David, very much so. Most esolangs pay some homage to the famous one you linked to above. SNUSP was invented at roughly the same time as PATH. Which was also about the same time as Befunge. But unlike Befunge, in SNUSP the code field is immutable. SNUSP has 6 of the 8 `brain*` instructions (which I usually...

I generally use 1. I've used 0 once or twice just because I was in a mood.There might be a case for an &nonnull but that just hurts my head. Plus it gives me writers cramps just thinking about it.David On Apr. 13, 2020 16:38, Steve Wampler <swampler@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:On 4/13/20 1:11 PM, Brian Tiffin wrote: > Just a simple curiousity. What do most Iconic programmers use for setting a value, when the value doesn't matter, other than being not &null? > > I used 1 in the SNUSP sample for things...

This sounds suspiciously like http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Execute_Brain****David On Apr. 13, 2020 07:39, Brian Tiffin <btiffin@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:Probably has bugs in it, but I was horsing around on a shelter in place Easter Sunday. Could probably use some guru level refactoring as well. SNUSP is two dimensional, the instruction pointer moving in the current direction of RIGHT, LEFT, UP and DOWN. There is a memory tape, theoritically infinite, with a default zero in each cell. Starting...