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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: Zip V8 (Re-releasing Zip)
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:47:13 GMT
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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

