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Re: SENSOR_READ doesn't return 0
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Date: 
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:16:25 GMT
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Actually, whils I am re-coding things, is there any reason why you
didn't do DELAY like this?

: DELAY ( 100msec timer -- )
  0 OVER TIMER_SET SWAP          ( timer ticks )
  BEGIN
    OVER TIMER_GET OVER >        ( timer ticks time>ticks )
  UNTIL
  2DROP
;

I have produced an interim millisecond timer:

: Sleep ( msec -- )
  0 DO
    [ DECIMAL ] 143 0 DO LOOP \ calibrated
  LOOP
;

--
John Cooper, Wallington, UK



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(...) There are indeed many ways to skin a cat...in the end , the effect is the same, but I'm always curious to see how others do things. How many FORTH programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one, but he has to be the fellow that (...) (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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(...) John, Thanks a lot for this catch. Sounds a lot like the email I exchanged with Kekoa regarding power down mode and external stacks, but that's another story... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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