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- From: leneis@ogicse.ogi.edu (Tony Leneis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Bug report for Post author
- Message-ID: <48318@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 00:05:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ogicse.48318
- Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute, Beaverton, OR
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- I had a problem with a postscript program not working in Post 1.7. The
- author eventually tracked it down to Post not handling strings and names the
- same way as keys in dictionaries. He was able to clear up the problem with a
- few gratuitous `cvs' commands, but wanted me to pass the following on to the
- author of Post. As I do not have an internet e-mail address, I'm hoping that
- somebody on the net will be able to pass this on:
-
- > That's what I thought. This is definitely a bug in "Post", and if you could
- > report it to the author, that would be cool. Specifically, the Red Book
- > (1st edition) says on page 30:
- >
- > "Keys are normally name objects; the PostScript syntax and the interpreter
- > are optimized for this most common case. However, a key may be any
- > PostScript object except `null' (defined below.) If you attempt to use a
- > string as a key, the PostScript interpreter will first convert that string
- > to a name object; thus strings and names are interchangeable when used as
- > keys in dictionaries."
- >
- > So the language definition is pretty clear that the `cvs' should be happening
- > automatically.
-
- Also, has there been any more work on Post? More specifically, is it going to
- be able to do level 2 Postscript? Also, any chance of getting a 2.0 compliant
- user interface? Neat program.
-
- Tony
- leneis@cse.ogi.edu
-