Re: unexpected behavior of ACCEPT

Try doing another KEY at the end. (Not sure - just a guess.)

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> Subject: [sftalk] Re: unexpected behavior of ACCEPT
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> In a message dated 5/2/2005 2:37:03 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> kbutterfield_at_lanl.gov writes:
>
> : q1 1000 ms key? key emit ;
>
> : q2 10000 ms key? if pad 10 accept pad swap dump then ;
>
> q1 (immediatly type 1) returns 1
> q2 (immediately type 1234) returns 234
> q2 (wait 20 seconds type 1234) returns 1234
>
> Where does the leading character go?
>
> Ken B
>
>
>
> Very interesting. Here is what I got.using win32forth
> the 0 left on the stack came from somewhere ... I suspect I
> stopped typing
> when key? accepted the first key
> q2 1234
> 5652 31 32 33 34 1234 ok
>
> This was most interesting without waiting for the time delay. Nothing
> appeared until the time delay was over. Then the hex
> representation of the numbers
> appeared and the cursor sat behind the numbers. I pressed return
> and '1234'
> appeared at the end of the line. I recognized the other numbers
> as the address
> for pad. I 'typed' the contents of pad and as expected found 1234
> as below.
> 5652 4 type 1234 ok
> I didn't do the third part because I knew it would be accepted
> as a numeric
> input. It doesn't go to pad because 'if' sees false.
>
>
> Charlie
>
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