Hi Robert,
> Hi, yes you can add it to the hash!, of course. But what do you want to search > for in the hash!? You can only search for 'a not the value 'a is refering to. > That's my problem. Example: > > hash!: ["romano" address-object] > > Now I can search for "romano" and get the address-object. In this case I have to > update the hash! if your name changes. > well, i start to understand, here it it is a solution (?) : >> ob: context [name: "romano"] >> h: append append make hash! [] get in ob 'name in ob 'name == make hash! ["romano" name] >> change ob/name "dolores" == "" >> h == make hash! ["dolores" name] The only problem is NOT to change name with an instruction like: >>ob/name: "dolores" because this changes the "fisical memory address" of the string pointed by ob/name while leaves the old string pointed by our hash series. Another problem is that this works only with series not with scalars. Another solution is writing a custom find which get the value of a word to search a string. Parse perhaps could help. I do not think that reduce is well suited, because i think you want to use a great hash database and reducing it every time is time consuming (reducing twice more). > > This is true. But load/save are for loading code and related data struct not > > for snapshot of data. This seems to me a relational database work. > > Yep, but IMO it's unnatural to faltten rebol objects to be stored in an RDBMS. > What do you do, if your objects are not all equalle structured? The RDBMS can't > handle that. It always needs the table specificaction a priori and complete. The database could be written in Rebol... What I want to say is that save/load is not the right method for this kind of work, it seems to me a more diffcult task, which requires dedicated code. I think that load/save could be better, they do not save/load neither all the normal Rebol code (unset problem, series not at head...) > Robert --- Ciao Romano -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
