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08:06:20 <docl> quiet here lately
08:07:17 <docl> I've been playing with ways to attach attributes to an object. (vocabs are one such way, of course)
08:08:43 <docl> today I came up with a strategy that simply puts a dictionary header into a linked list, the beginning of which is allocated whenever you create the object
08:09:01 <docl> variable container
08:09:01 <docl> : >container @@container !over @container ! ;
08:09:01 <docl> : last> @last @dup !last ;
08:09:01 <docl> : property ( "-a ) create 0 , last> >container ;
08:09:01 <docl> : object ( "- ) create here 0 , !container ;
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08:11:45 <docl> what might be helpful in addition to that is a class which takes the object xt and assigns it to container variable.
08:12:20 <docl> : .object !container ;
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08:30:24 <docl> http://www.forthcommunity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=62
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16:20:04 <crc> home now
16:21:32 <crc> hmm, docl's code looks interesting
17:02:29 <crc> I'll be able to find a use for this I think
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17:54:19 * docl is reading the revised object code
17:55:12 <docl> very nice
18:01:25 <crc> thanks
18:06:55 <crc> it looks useful to me
18:09:59 <docl> :)
18:14:18 <crc> I revised my post to add one more word: explain
18:17:42 <docl> cool!
18:21:34 <crc> now I'm happy with it :)
18:54:09 <docl> <data> relies on integers not being pointers to ascii values.
18:54:20 <crc> true
18:54:25 <crc> better tagging is needed
18:55:36 <crc> (should be pretty doable. just store an extra cell indicating type when creating properties)
18:55:42 <docl> yeah
19:13:57 <crc> ok, I updated with some simple tagging
20:41:11 <crc> tomorrow I'll play with this more from a database perspective (I've got a small data set of books I'm playing with)
20:52:25 <crc> so far I'm at http://retroforth.com/paste/?id=3385
20:52:55 <crc> 'list' dumps all records in the chain; " name" byAuthor  will display a list of all books by an author
20:53:15 <crc> (this is now to a place where regex could be beneficial)
21:19:55 <docl> neat...
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