[REBOL] generalities of addresses and values... Re:(2)
From: rishi:picostar at: 9-Oct-2000 22:59
ok. I think I get it now. Everything is basically done as a reference. Even setting words.
This is much simpler than what I was thinking :-)
ei:
a: 5
b: a
in this example, b is a reference to a (right?). The thing that was confusing me was
that the copy function doesn't always create a new copy. In deep series, it creates a
reference to copied value....strange...
By the way, is there any way to prove that b is a reference to a ( in the above example)
? I know you can do it if you set the value of as a series datatype (by using insert
or other series function). But how do you prove that b references a for number datatypes?
Rishi
Previously, you ([larry--ecotope--com]) wrote: