[REBOL] Re: Sameness - a pragmatic approach.
From: maarten:koopmans:surfnet:nl at: 12-Feb-2003 13:30
Hi Joel,
> 1) When is the last time anyone on this list used ALIAS for anything?
> (other than demonstrating what ALIAS does ;-)
I did. Once upon a time on the wild wild REB I wrote a script that you
could feed a dictionary and then made a "localized " REBOL. Aliasing the
complete dictionary to provide a native (as in a your native language)
REBOL.
REBOL/Dutch was fun to have. I built it for my wife so she could read
some scripts that she was about to use. That worked for her as well.
> 2) Could that need have been served by some other mechanism already
> in REBOL? (such as SET/PROTECT or passing a reference)
>
No. Alias works "better" than set for some values. As you may well know ;-)
--Maarten
