[REBOL] Re: link to background on Rebol language design?
From: maximo:meteorstudios at: 22-Aug-2003 10:08
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> > One interesting mental model I occassionally use is to
> > visualise a matrix, with REBOL words as row labels and
> > different contexts being columns (mostly anonymous).
>
> Hi, this leads me to a question: Is it possible to list all contexts a
> word! is defined in? I know that there are a lot of anonymous
> contexts,
I do not think its possible, since each word stores its context locally... we'd have
to get a pointer to all contexts in ram.
since the GC actually does check if a context is being used, there might be a way to
get a list of all of them, but I am not sure if its accessible from the code's POV.
