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[REBOL] Stupid function contexts (or stupid Rebol user?)

From: d4marcus:dtek:chalmers:se at: 5-Dec-2001 22:00

Hi, For probably the hundredth time, I have stumbled over the problem with function contexts, or however you would call it. It's the usual problem: There's an object, containing a bunch of parse rules and a function. The parse rules make use of same words that are local to the function. This doesn't work of course. Solution 1 (bad): Put all the parse rules in the function, which means they are redefined every time the function is executed. Solution 2 (worse): Put all words in the object, which mean the function can only be called once at a time, i.e. it must finish until it can be called again, since some words can't be shared. This makes using it with several faces at once impossible. Solution 3 (good): Insert you suggestion here, please. :-) Btw, does anyone have a decent standalone presentation script? Something using simple colored named boxes, which you can connect your own docs presented in a similar fashion to the easy-draw doc (a full MDP-to-VID converter would be nicer still). I have thrown together one which almost does what I want, except that it doesn't quite work because of the problem above, and besides it's not general at all. A dialect for building this kind of presentation would come useful. Marcus ------------------------------------ If you find that life spits on you calm down and pretend it's raining