[REBOL] Re: Need help on something tricky...
From: tim:johnsons-web at: 3-Oct-2001 20:48
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:50:27PM -0400, Christian Morency wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on a rebol library that implements many useful
> features to Rebol, but I have hit a nail I guess... so here's the nail...
> and please I know the question, example may sound absurd but I would like to
> implement this because developers using this script don't have to know what
> it does actually... I only want to make the use of this script easier.
>
> let's say I have a function that bind a word to a value :
>
> bind-word-to: func [word value] [
> do reduce [
> to-set-word word rejoin [
> value " of " to-string word
> ]
> ]
> ]
>
> I would use it like this :
>
> >> bind-word-to 'my-string "this is the value"
> == "this is the value of my-string"
> >> my-string
> == "this is the value of my-string"
>
> Now how could I use it this way instead ?
This isn't the best answer, but think about this until someone else
reads this.... (my wife is telling me to get my butt away from the
computer)
f: func[arg[word!]][print rejoin["the value of " arg " is " get arg]
>> f 't
the value of t is 4
> my-string: bind-word-to "this is the value"
>
> I know the question or example may seem stupid, but it is 1) something I
> don't know how to do, 2) something very useful in what I'm trying to attain,
> ie user/developer simplicity for my library
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
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