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13:49:15 <Zarutian> this the place where retroForth that runs on the ngaro vm is generally discussed?
14:20:09 <oPless> indeed.
14:20:27 <oPless> it's fairly quiet though.
16:06:32 <Zarutian> any spefic reason why retroForth uses null termined string and not counted ones?
16:06:49 <Zarutian> (as far as I can tell from looking at the 11.5 image)
19:27:48 <tangentstorm> Zarutian: it used counted strings in the past, but it changed... i don't know why but is it a problem for you?
19:28:16 <Zarutian> naah, I just distrust null terminated strings in general
19:28:56 <Zarutian> also, I was curious which were used when the ngaro vm spec was written.
19:33:26 <Zarutian> I just want to be sure to implement Port 4 (file operations) correctly
19:33:58 <tangentstorm> what language are you implementing it in?
19:34:30 <Zarutian> löve2d, which is Lua 5.1
19:37:17 <tangentstorm> here is my implementation of port 4 in pascal: https://github.com/sabren/b4/blob/master/ng/ng_ports.pas#L106
19:37:22 <tangentstorm> the string part is here:  https://github.com/sabren/b4/blob/master/ng/ng_retro.pas
19:38:40 <tangentstorm> hrm... i guess i was trimming it at 255 characters because i was used to really old style pascal strings which had that limitation. i never went back and finished it.
19:38:51 <tangentstorm> er updated it... but it also never caused me a problem in retro i guess.
19:39:40 <tangentstorm> the < 128 looks like i was trying to restrict it to ascii... but that's not actually necesssary.
19:40:09 * tangentstorm should probably update his code. :)
19:41:26 <Zarutian> so, a pointer to a null terminated string in ngaro vm memory
19:41:39 <tangentstorm> yep
19:41:51 <Zarutian> thanks
19:41:56 <tangentstorm> np. afk/back in a bit.
19:42:04 <Zarutian> now I must get to bed
19:42:08 <Zarutian> cya around
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20:22:58 <Ampera> Hello, Is this channel the Sonic Retro IRC or something different?
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20:53:37 <crc> Null terminated strings were mostly a carryover from my work on the FFI in retro8/9 and toka.
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