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[REBOL] Re: Context misery

From: sanghabum:aol at: 5-Jun-2001 12:33

Thanks Joel and all for the various replies, Maybe I'm thinking more like an Imperial stormtrooper than a Rebol, but the Rebol model for contexts and global/local variables seems neither simple nor straightforward, as several previous threads have suggested.
> Unless it is necessary, evaluating strings is generally not > a good practice. Evaluating strings is less efficient than > evaluating blocks, and the context of words in a string is > not known. > I strongly recommend taking that advice to heart! Trying to > construct source code strings that DO what you want is tricky > at best, and a potential source of highly subtle bugs at > worst.
Thanks for TFM ref. I'd completely failed to R that part. Sounds like we've both learnt from experience here.
> Why? If you can describe what you're trying to accomplish > here, perhaps some of the old hands can offer some alternatives > that won't be so tricky to deal with. For example...
Well, the moment, has passed. I coded what I wanted in another way--the code involved builds a data update layout dynamically from a CSV file: first row is the field names, subsequent rows the data, and it was generating global variables from the field names. It seems like a good idea at the time. Thanks again, --Colin.