[Oberon] FPGA - Inline Patterns

[Skulski, Wojciech]

Is the HexString a back door, or is it an Easter Egg?

Wojtek
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From: Oberon [oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] on behalf of Andreas Pirklbauer [andreas_pirklbauer at yahoo.com]
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Subject: [Oberon]  FPGA - Inline Patterns

A string enclosed by $ . . . $, as is used in modules Display or Input for example, is called HexString (see ORS.HexString). HexString is a little feature that elegantly addressed a small problem, but it was never intended to be widely used. That’s why it is not published in the language report - which means that it *is* officially not part of the language. But if you know what you are doing, you can - it likely won’t go away. And if it does, well, then you’d notice ;-)

Andreas


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> Jörg joerg.straube at iaeth.ch<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__iaeth.ch&d=DwMFaQ&c=kbmfwr1Yojg42sGEpaQh5ofMHBeTl9EI2eaqQZhHbOU&r=uUiA_zLpwaGJIlq-_BM9w1wVOuyqPwHi3XzJRa-ybV0&m=AjX4mGyZqV6BCQIpBpiPQGVDXn3clLaOkLctzDSlUhw&s=Q_ZGqBrTB2J2-LaAEcZPn4nETVCRAjNsozQSFIuFDaQ&e=> Mon Apr 24 18:10:34 CEST 2017

> Officially, the Oberon language only offers expression for constant "array of chars”,

> called string constants.

> The constant "array of bytes" you are refering to is a feature of the compiler,

> not described in the language as far as I know.

> It is also used eg. in the keyboard driver to translate keyboard strokes to chars.

> br
> Jörg


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> Am 24.04.2017 um 17:53 schrieb Tomas Kral <thomas.kral at email.cz<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.inf.ethz.ch_mailman_listinfo_oberon&d=DwMFaQ&c=kbmfwr1Yojg42sGEpaQh5ofMHBeTl9EI2eaqQZhHbOU&r=uUiA_zLpwaGJIlq-_BM9w1wVOuyqPwHi3XzJRa-ybV0&m=AjX4mGyZqV6BCQIpBpiPQGVDXn3clLaOkLctzDSlUhw&s=tzxY0UVNvxDsL0pj8pdiivAho58qvJJRfyKZt8OYtRQ&e=>>:
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> Hi,
>
> I have just discovered this interesting and useful construct, found in
> `Display.Mod', defining a pattern.
>
> block := SYSTEM.ADR($0808 FFFF C3C3 C3C3 FFFF$);
>
> pattern = w(byte) h(byte) {raster(byte)}
>
> block* is exported, so can also be used in user modules.
>
> Tomas
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