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From: andrew@idacom.uucp (Andrew Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Data Structures
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Date: 20 Sep 90 16:44:29 GMT
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Mitch Bradley writes:
> Forth should only have one visible string
> representation (currently it has 4), and that representation should be
> "adr len" on the stack.

How do I get "adr len" on the stack?  The operation is defined for strings
defined with " , but what about strings in memory?  I can only get the
address of a string buffer defined with CREATE, for example.  I must use
COUNT, or perhaps STRLEN for a null terminated string, to get the length.
I do not want to have to declare a seperate VARIABLE for the length of
each string buffer I use.
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