Trying to use the metaphor

[Troy Rollins]

Rev's "Cards and stack" metaphor can be traced though a long history of 
stack-based programming. For those of us not entirely familiar with its 
idiosyncrasies, in can be a bit "unfamiliar."

For instance, I have a stack of cards, some to be kept, some discarded. 
In the processing of my program, I decided to try to "work within the 
metaphor."

I started by marking all the cards (??).
I then worked with my data a bit, all the while "unmarking cards" to be 
kept. My thinking was that the system would allow me to "delete marked 
cards" at the end of the cycle. I stupidly thought that "delete marked 
cards" would work.

Which, of course, I haven't seemed to be able to make it do. I feel 
elementary when I have to ask, how does one delete all the marked cards 
in a stack? Frustrations like this will send OOP experienced 
programmers running from this environment.

The syntax and metaphor may seem "easy" to some, but to me it creates 
MANY more hurdles than the logic flow of my program, which is pretty 
sophisticated. I get errors like "bad grammar" and "sloppy handwriting" 
and "late for class" thrown at me all the time. I feel like a child 
that didn't bring in his homework when this stuff comes up.

But, I endeavor to persevere. Is there a better technique than what 
I've described? Failing that, how does one delete all the marked cards 
in a stack?
--
Troy
RPSystems, Ltd.
http://www.rpsystems.net