[REBOL] Re: Hack
From: rotenca:telvia:it at: 30-Dec-2001 14:38
Hi, Sunanda
> In case you didn't pick it up in my earlier email, the Sept 2000 (the
latest,
At the end the mail arrived to me, with a great delay.
> I think) Rebol/Core User Guide says of the Error/Where field
>
> "The where field is reserved"
>
> This is the only place I can find in that manual where something is
> specifically designated reserved.
This leaves us only with a 5 words copy of source in Near.
> It's not immediately useful to me as I tend to have objects "two deep". I
> could use it at the first level:
>
> make-ob-name 'f [a: 1 b: 2]
>
> but to base an object on that, I still need to write
>
> g: make f [c: 3] g/self-name: 'g
make-ob-name: func [word [word!] type [object! datatype!] spec [block!]][
set word make type compose [self-name: (bind reduce [to-lit-word word]
word) (spec)]
]
But this is only an example. There are many methods to works with these kind
of things.
You could keep also an history of names of derived object in self-name, using
a block instead of a word.
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Ciao
Romano
