> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Romano Paolo Tenca > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 5:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: Objects, references & values
> well, i start to understand, here it it is a solution (?) : Hi, :-)) as non native english speaker it's not so easy to describe a problem that detailed, that the others can follow... > >> 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] Hmm... what happens if we have several names here? Would this result in: ["dolores" name "romano" name ...] Why the 'name entry? With such a hash! I could search for a name value and get a 'name word that is linked to the address object, right? Would it be possible to use 'self instead of 'name? I used numbers as object index because these don't change if reduced twice. > The only problem is NOT to change name with an instruction like: > > >>ob/name: "dolores" ;-)) Bingo! We need private data. > Another solution is writing a custom find which get the value of a word to > search a string. Parse perhaps could help. I thought about this too. The nice thing about hash! is that (at least that's what I hope) is implemented as a hash datastructure and therefore supports very fast searches. Implementing a custom made find, I might have to iterate over each object... this gives searchspeed O(n). > 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). I didn't checked this but this could be true. It was just a quick hack to given an example for my not-so-well-described problem ;-)) > The database could be written in Rebol... I'm a fan of simple solutions and thought that there must be a way to do it with the given parts... anway, after solving the reference problem, I go for this one. Robert -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
