Hi ebierly
you wrote:
>a:"ed"
>b:"a"
>c:"b"
>>> do do c
>== ed
>Is there a way to determine the depth of indirection such as f of c = 2?
depth?: func [word [word!] /local depth] [
depth: 0
while [ value? to-word :word ] [
word: get to-word :word
depth: depth + 1
]
depth
]
>> depth? 'a
== 1
>> depth? 'b
== 2
>> depth? 'c
== 3
Note that depth? of 'a is 1, which I believe makes sense, and therefore
detph? 'c becomes 3.
Elan
