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koreth@spud.Hyperion.COM (Steven Grimm) writes:

>Unfortunately, on one of the printers I'm using, I get a stack overflow
>when I try to define this procedure (which can end up being fairly large
>if the image is complex).  This happens whether I call the procedure or
>not.

Instead of expanding the stack, might it be possible to break up the
procedure in to subprocedures?  This can be done quite mechanically;
you don't even have to assign procedure names.

Instead of writing:

    /proc {2 3 4 add mul} bind def

you can write

    /procarray [{2 3}{4 add}{mul}] def
    /proc {procarray {exec} forall} bind def

or you can go even further (and get the bind to do all the work once)

    /procarray [[{2 3}{4 add}{mul}] {bind} forall] def
    /proc {procarray {exec} forall} bind def

This strategy is not capable of breaking up code within {} blocks
without modification.

Anybody have any better ideas?

David Bau