[REBOL] Re: Reflectivity: How a function can know its own name ?
From: carl:cybercraft at: 27-Mar-2002 14:32
On 27-Mar-02, laplace wrote:
> If I don't have a "name of self" for function, each time I add a new
> function to call generic function, it is in the code of generic
> function that I would have to test the name of the function with a
> more or less gigantic number of test instructions:
> generic_function: make function ['function_name]
> [
> if function_name = "func1"
> [
> instruction11
> instruction12
> print function_name
> instruction13
> ]
> if function_name = "func2"
> [
> print function_name
> instruction21
> ]
> ]
This doesn't address the function name problem, but there is a 'select
word in View which would get around the need for multiple 'ifs. ie...
item: 'blk-2
do select [
blk-1 [print "a"]
blk-2 [print "b"]
blk-3 [print "c"]
] item
--
Carl Read
