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From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: A question about //add
Summary: Oops, you caught me!
Message-ID: <21985@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 6 Dec 90 06:48:25 GMT
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glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
 
> In article <21745@well.sf.ca.us> shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
writes:
> >/systemname load operatortype { /systemname { //systemname } def } if
> 
> This second bit of code doesn't work, for one thing; you need to use
> the "type" operator:
> 
> /systemname load type /operatortype eq { ... } if
 
Thanks for catching my error.  As you can see from my nup posting,
this is a case of failing memory. :-)
 
Bind doesn't seem to do what I want:  it doesn't replace names
that evaluate as procedures, only those that evaluate as
operators. Or am I reading the book wrong?
 
Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)


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