2023-07-02 04:13:11 <veltas      > Hard to guess what's happening, more importantly what the f*** are they trying to do :)
2023-07-02 04:17:32 <veltas      > In old Forths you could store stuff in string literals safely, but I don't even understand how they'd be doing that because I'd expect the literal to be a counted string or adr+len pair
2023-07-02 04:17:41 <veltas      > And why one 'compiles' and the other doesn't I couldn't guess
2023-07-02 11:53:26 <veltas      > Ah curry :D
2023-07-02 12:15:01 <KipIngram   > Oh, oh - ok, so notice the difference in his first and second examples is that that second string is a single char in the first one but two in the second.
2023-07-02 12:15:31 <KipIngram   > I bet the first one just puts an address on the stack, but the second one puts an address / count pair, and he's trying to store using the count as an address.
2023-07-02 12:15:39 <KipIngram   > And the system notices that somehow.
2023-07-02 12:16:24 <KipIngram   > In any case I can't see that as code that's going to do anything sensible.
2023-07-02 12:16:57 <KipIngram   > Well, I've now finished all of the available Dan Faust books and I'm reading the next to last available Harmony Black spinoff series book.
2023-07-02 12:17:17 <KipIngram   > And I've read both of the "related" series (The Revanche Cycle and the Wisdom's Grave trilogy).
2023-07-02 12:17:29 <KipIngram   > So I've almost exhausted this whole pile of new stuff.
2023-07-02 12:17:49 <KipIngram   > It's some of the better stuff I've read in the last few years, but in the end it's still not as good as The Dresden Files.
2023-07-02 12:18:10 <KipIngram   > Comes closer than anything else I've found, though.
2023-07-02 12:18:32 <KipIngram   > Supposedly a new Faust book and a new Harmony Black book are due out later this year.
2023-07-02 12:25:25 <Zarutian_iPad> not familiar with these series
2023-07-02 12:30:03 <KipIngram   > https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/563ba4c9e4b03a8b2f1ad563/3e672fdc-4033-4d97-89bf-40f0e89f61aa/HS+Reading+Order+1.jpg?format=1500w
2023-07-02 12:30:46 <KipIngram   > Hard to tell from that picture what that "The First Story" down in the bottom right corner means, but it comes clear as you read.
2023-07-02 12:30:56 <Zarutian_iPad> I am so unfamiliar that I do not even know in wich genre they are in
2023-07-02 12:30:59 <KipIngram   > It's an interesting idea and it's what knits all the different pieces together.
2023-07-02 12:31:22 <KipIngram   > Faust, Harmony, and Wisdom's Grave would be considered urban fantasy.
2023-07-02 12:31:35 <KipIngram   > The Revanche Cycle is different - more of a mediavel setting.
2023-07-02 12:31:43 <KipIngram   > And yet they all get tied together eventually.
2023-07-02 12:31:51 <Zarutian_iPad> aah, something that C. Stross has milked
2023-07-02 12:33:58 <KipIngram   > I read about the first three or four Faust books before starting Harmony, and then read them up through The Neon Boneyard and Cold Spectrum.  Then I went and got The Revanch Cycle followed by Wisdom's Grave, and then returned to Faust and Harmony.  I finished Down Among the Dead Men last night and am currently reading Right to the Kill.  I haven't read the short stories yet.
2023-07-02 12:34:33 <KipIngram   > Faust is a sorcerer "anit-hero" that operates in the shadows in Las Vegas.
2023-07-02 12:35:10 <KipIngram   > Harmony is an FBI agent early on but then gets hooked up with an occult-oriented government black ops group.
2023-07-02 12:35:33 <KipIngram   > "Protect America from occult threats," and keep it all under wraps.
2023-07-02 12:35:54 <KipIngram   > And she's a sorceror too.