[REBOL] Re: Binding
From: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 19-Nov-2002 14:24
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> On Behalf Of Ladislav Mecir
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:57 PM
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> Subject: [REBOL] Re: Binding
> > So, it really seems to be that bind is one-shot action.
>
> I am not sure I understand what you mean here...
>
> > Every word that get's bound to the
> > local context after BIND isn't accessible from the bounded block.
>
> Again, I don't think, I understand...
Hi, ok I try again with the goal to finally understand this. Can't
believe it but even after years of Reboling it sometimes surprises me...
And I just read some of your words, etc. stuff from your Rebol page. But
it's really hard stuff...
Anyway: Let's get back to my first code snippet:
forall-records: func [list predicate action /local object][
if any [none? list empty? predicate empty? action][return none]
list: select list 'values
predicate: bind/copy predicate 'list
action: bind/copy action 'list
; iterate through the whole list of values
; check if the first entry satisfies the predicate
; if so execute the action.
foreach [id object] list [
if do predicate [do action]
]
]
result: make block! []
forall-records graph/nodes [?? object][append result id]
And see what I think we have (please correct if wrong):
1. result is bound to the global context
2. Are OBJECT, RESULT and ID bound at all? Where? Global context?
3. Now the function call happens. LIST PREDICATE ACTION are set
as aliases to
- graph/nodes
- [?? object]
- [append result id]
4. action will be set to a copy of [append result id] with the words
bound to ??
And now I'm lost...
Is there a graphical picture that shows how all this binding etc. stuff
works together? I said one-shot because IFAIK the binding of a word
can't be changed once set.
> No such information exists. A block can contain words. Every
> word in a block has its own binding attribute.
Ok, that's something I can imagine. Is there a binding visualizer
available? I would like to see where a word is bound to, not only get
the message: It's not bound to the actual context.
> No. FOREACH binds its BODY argument appropriately.
At the moment the body is evaluated the first time?
> Unfortunately, if you use variables 'predicate and 'action,
> FOREACH binds only the variables instead of the values they represent.
Hmm... Does this make any sense? What does is mean "binds only the
variables..." So these have no values at all?
> The code containing COMPOSE doesn't allow FOREACH to bind the
> variables, because it replaces the variables by their
> contents before BODY is supplied to FOREACH, and that is why
> FOREACH is allowed to do what is needed.
Ok, I think I got this. So I can think of this like doing a textual
replacement (but keeping the origianl binding). Robert
