[REBOL] Re: Functions, /local and refinements
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 15-May-2004 13:31
Hi Gabriele,
GS> The interpreter has never been doing things in any particular way.
GS> That is, /LOCAL is just a refinement, like /ALL would, or /WITH,
GS> etc. Carl just decided, as a convention, to use the refinement
GS> named /LOCAL to define local words; so HELP is just following this
GS> convention. As I said, it would make no harm to change HELP, but
GS> I'm not really sure it would be worth it...
Of course that makes perfect sense, but shouldn't HELP still
understand that refinements coming after /local are part of the
interface and display them?
-- Gregg
