Re: Zip V8 (Re-releasing Zip)


Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:47:13 GMT

In article <we3fbjoaea.fsf@iasc3.scm.liv.ac.uk>,
Bruce Stephens <bruce@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
>A related extra feature would be to provide hooks in the save_undo,
>restore_undo parts, to allow the interface to give a bit of memory to
>do the saving and restoring in. (Or just have the save_undo tell the
>interface about the id of a saved state, for a more object-oriented
>feel.) That would allow interfaces to keep multiple levels of undo,
>on machines where that was sensible. It would also help if the core
>adopted something like what Bryan Scattergood's Psion interpreter
>does, so that saved states were ~2K rather than ~40K (Graham Nelson's
>Specification gives a hint).

Speaking of which, is the source to that going to appear?

If not, it's a more effective use of my time to write the interpreter
from scratch than to decryptify the Zip code to figure out what needs to
change to become Spec 0.2-compliant. (I haven't, yet.)

Anyone for C++?

/Steve