[REBOL] Re: Speeding up code
From: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 21-Feb-2002 0:05
At 21.19 20/02/02, Sunanda wrote:
>There's some oddity going on here -- no doubt explained in the core manual
>(which I didn't have backed up, and haven't yet redownloaded). The
Well, I think users don't expect this behavior because they are used to the
term "object" as used in OOP (and in particular in class-based OOP). Not to
go against Joel, ;) but if RT actually named OBJECT! as CONTEXT! instead
this confusion would not exist. (They probably didn't just because they have
a CONTEXT! already internally and because OBJECT!s can also be used for OO
programming in REBOL.)
A REBOL OBJECT! is no more than a series of name/value pairs, and that what
is usually referred ad "a context" in REBOL. Things are just simpler than
what most users expect. :)
Regards,
Gabriele.
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Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer
Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r
