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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: PRG-> and ->PRG
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Date: 10 Oct 90 19:26:00 GMT
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louxj@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (John W. Loux) writes:
> Do you mind if I ask what good this is?  Aside from that, something similar
> can be accomplished by either creating the program as a LIST or converting
> the program to a list and then using OBJ-> to decompose to the stack.  The
> result is the same with the exception that the program delimiters are not
> among the commands and functions on the stack.  ->LIST will recompose the
> object and EVAL will run it as a program.

The problem with using a list as the program is that it won't automatically
be evaluated when you press the key corresponding to a variable in which it
is stored.  A while ago I wanted to write a little program which would
automagically cons up a program (which simply called another one with a
particular set of args) and store it in a handy variable.  But I couldn't
figure out how to do this...

-Miles