[MWForum]InFront does not seem to work correctly.

[Daniel Ajoy]

On 29 Nov 2002 at 13:02, Walter Smith wrote:

> I ran into the same problem that Ron did with stacking turtles when making a
> concentration game for my kindergarten class ... I abandoned the turtle over
> turtle method ... and switch the shape of the turtle to what was needed ...
> see attached ...

This procedure can be compressed:

> to toshape		;sets the shape when clicked on
> if who = "t1 [setsh :t1shape]
> if who = "t2 [setsh :t2shape]
> if who = "t3 [setsh :t3shape]
> if who = "t4 [setsh :t4shape]
> if who = "t5 [setsh :t5shape]
> if who = "t6 [setsh :t6shape]
> if who = "t7 [setsh :t7shape]
> if who = "t8 [setsh :t8shape]
> end

to this:


to toshape		;sets the shape when clicked on
setsh thing word who "shape
end


And this:

to go		;runs the show
setup.vari
select.shape	make "t1shape :shape	make "t2shape :shape
t1, place	
t2, place
select.shape	make "t3shape :shape 	make "t4shape :shape
t3, place
t4, place	
select.shape	make "t5shape :shape 	make "t6shape :shape
t5, place	
t6, place
select.shape	make "t7shape :shape 	make "t8shape :shape
t7, place
t8, place
end

Can be compressed to this:

to go
setup.vari

dolist [i [1 3 5 7]] [
 select.shape	
 make (word "t :i + 0 "shape) :shape	
 make (word "t :i + 1 "shape) :shape
]
end

Or even to this:

to go
setup.vari

dolist [i [1 3 5 7]] [
 select.shape	
 dotimes [j 2] [make (word "t :i + :j "shape) :shape]
]
end


http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pattis/quotations.html

> In the development of the understanding of complex
> phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the
> human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises
> from the recognition of similarities between
> certain objects, situations, or processes in the
> real world and the decision to concentrate on
> these similarities and to ignore, for the time
> being, their differences. 
> 
> - C.A.R. Hoare

However:

> Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs. 
> - R. Pike  

:)
Daniel
OpenWorld Learning