commandline arguments

[Eulenspiegel]

Hi I'm a tcl user.

For speeding up some calculations and because maths is quite ugly in tcl I want to use 4tH. At the moment I use yabasic (damn simple). But future tasks might be better implemented in Forth.

For  calculating the distance I push over geodata as commandline arguments. When I tried the example code from the manual (10.8) I just got an error.

>> 4tH library v3.64 - Copyright 1994,2022 J.L. Bezemer

>> Compiling; Word 5: Undefined name

I saved the example code and ran: "4th cx scriptname.fs Hallo Welt"

What's wrong with my code or the settings?

Greetings from Germany!

[The Beez]

Hi!

I assume you used this one:

argn 0> if argn 0 do i args type cr loop then

And actually - there is nothing wrong with it! Lemme show you:

$ cat ex2.4th
argn 0>
if
argn 0 do
i args type cr
loop
then
$ 4th cx ex2.4th Hello Welt

4tH library v3.64 - Copyright 1994,2022 J.L. Bezemer

ex2.4th
Hello
Welt
$

I even went as far as:

$ 4th cx scriptname.4th Hello Welt

4tH library v3.64 - Copyright 1994,2022 J.L. Bezemer

scriptname.4th
Hello
Welt
$

Now first, if you encounter a problem I advise you to dump the code. Like this:

$ 4th cd scriptname.4th Hello Welt

4tH library v3.64 - Copyright 1994,2022 J.L. Bezemer

4tH message: No errors at word 11
Object size: 11 words
String size: 0 chars
Variables  : 0 cells
Strings    : 0 chars
Symbols    : 0 names
Reliable   : Yes

  Addr| Opcode                        Operand   Argument

     0| argn                                0
     1| 0>                                  0
     2| 0branch                            10
     3| argn                                0
     4| literal                             0
     5| do                                 10
     6| r@                                  0
     7| args                                0
     8| type                                0
     9| cr                                  0
    10| loop                                5
$

It will at least gimme something more to work with ;-)

I can just assume that some kind of control character has found its way into your code - causing it to misbehave. Or may be you typed it in yourself and made a tiny little error doing it. Next time, please include the code. Since this is a google group, you can. 

But to get you going, I added the script here. It should work fine - since it is the same script I used. And no additional libraries are required to run it. 4tH requires very few settings and those do not come into play here. Hope this helps

Hans Bezemer

  

[Eulenspiegel]

Oh boy! What a bad start! Seems so that I saved the code in an other file. Runs like clockwork. I'm so sorry ...

[The Beez]

Well, don't be sorry. Everybody makes mistakes and I'm always happy to help. So next time you run into something, don't hesitate to ask.

Hans Bezemer