On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 11:16  PM, Edwards, Waverly wrote:

>
> Both you and Peter Bancroft had exactly the
> same idea, (he emailed me privately also).
>
> I had to sleep on the idea in order for it
> to register.  Now that the light bulb is
> on, someone is home and the scales have
> fallen off my eyes I cant believe how simple,
> elegant and fast the solution is.
>
> Thanks Tedd  & Peter
> Thanks Peter & Tedd
>
> I see the light and I'm walking towards it.
>
>
> W.
>
>

Beware the oncoming light, for it is that of a freight train!!!


Pete...                          (the other one)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tedd [mailto:tedd@...]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:48 AM
> To: futurebasic@...
> Subject: RE: [FB] better queue suggestion desired
>
>
> W.
>
> I just though of another way to do what you want using a common array
> -- it might be better for you. Please follow and consider:
>
> DIM a(999)
> DIM gStart
> gStart = 0
>
> When you grab your first piece of data, place it in the array where
> gStart directs and increment gStart.
>
> a(gStart) = data
> gStart++
> IF gStart > 999 THEN gStart = 0
>
> Repeat until there is no more data.
>
> When you're done and want to know what the sequence was, just start
> at gStart +1 and travel to gStart.
>
> For example, if you had a total of 1010 entries.
>
> gStart would be equal to 9 (the last event value stored) and gStart +
> 1 would be equal to 10 (the first of the last 1000 events value
> stored).
>
> The sequence of events would be from gStart + 1 to 999 and 0 to
> gStart -- a total of 1000 entries in FIFO order.
>
> tedd
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