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Re: Version of concatenate which does use VM

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From: Rob Bradlee
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:21
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In article <907@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> glenn@rightbrain.com writes:

>That reminds me.  You asked a question a few weeks ago about one of
>the examples in my book, and I wrote a long message about it, but there
>wasn't a single response to it, so I wondered if it got out there at all.
>Did anybody see it?  Does anybody care? :-)
>
>Glenn
>
Sorry I didn't email you or followup.  Yes, I definitely cared about your response
and much appreciated it.  (Your reply coincided with a work crisis).
Based on your response I decided to leave my inherited code alone 
(i.e. let it do errordict /typecheck get exec not errordict begin typecheck end).
I apologize for not properly responding.

And while I have you here, I have another question which you might find 
interesting.  What about the technique of using non-name keys in dictionaries.
For instance if you wanted to execute a different proc for every resolution you
could create a dict with the resolution (as an integer) as the key:

	3 dict begin
	300 {} def
	600 {} def
	1200 {} def
	end

However, I think you run into some syntax problems with this approach.  Have you ever
successful used it?

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Subject: Re: Version of concatenate which does use VM
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