On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch wrote: > The most obvious reason one builds such contexts is to protect functions > and local data from spilling into the global context (and vice-versa). > since you have no need for the context itself, there is no need to store > any reference to it. You can sort of see this as a manual "scoping" of > variables (although its really static binding of word). To expand on that, any data stored in an anonymous context can only be referenced and/or changed by a function within that context.
This makes the data *truly* private! I think one can implement 'use in a similar fashion. I've seen examples on this ML - if memory serves me - but not implemented that approach myself. Tim -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
