At 21.19 20/02/02, Sunanda wrote: >There's some oddity going on here -- no doubt explained in the core manual >(which I didn't have backed up, and haven't yet redownloaded). The
Well, I think users don't expect this behavior because they are used to the term "object" as used in OOP (and in particular in class-based OOP). Not to go against Joel, ;) but if RT actually named OBJECT! as CONTEXT! instead this confusion would not exist. (They probably didn't just because they have a CONTEXT! already internally and because OBJECT!s can also be used for OO programming in REBOL.) A REBOL OBJECT! is no more than a series of name/value pairs, and that what is usually referred ad "a context" in REBOL. Things are just simpler than what most users expect. :) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
