Hi, Patrick,
pat665 wrote:
>
> ... I would like to know more about bind and use. If anyone has
> examples, explanations, even raw material ?
>
Here's a starter, with mild apologies for the length:
http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m19482.html
This was from a previous discussion, but note the parts about each
REBOL word belonging to a context and FUNC changing contexts of
words. You can have words with the same "name", but which are
different words because they belong to different contexts. (Think
of the fact that "George" is a different person, depending on
whether you're in the Clooney house, the White House, or the
Jungle.)
Now consider this transcript:
>> fee: "phi" == "phi"
>> fie: "phei" == "phei"
>> foe: "pho" == "pho"
>> fum: [fee fie foe] == [fee fie foe]
>> print fum -> phi phei pho
FUM contains three words, which belong to the global context.
>> some-object: make object! [
[ fee: $25.00
[ fie: "shame"
[ foe: "opponent"
[ tunnel: func [b [block!]] [bind b 'self]
[ ]
SOME-OBJECT also has three words with those same names, but they
are in a different context, so...
>> print fum
phi phei pho
...FUM still refers to the original (global) three words.
Now let's tunnel into the context of SOME-OBJECT...
>> some-object/tunnel fum == [fee fie foe]
FUM still refers to three words with the same names, but now
they live in a different house...
>> print fum -> $25.00 shame opponent
but
>> print [fee fie foe] -> phi phei pho
So that
bind foo 'baz
(where FOO is a block of words) says "for each word reference
in FOO, if there is a synonym for that word in the context
that contains 'BAZ, make that reference in FOO be to the synonym
in 'BAZ 's context."
HTH!
-jn-
--
; sub REBOL {}; sub head ($) {@_[0]}
REBOL []
# despam: func [e] [replace replace/all e ":" "." "#" "@"]
; sub despam {my ($e) = @_; $e =~ tr/:#/.@/; return "\n$e"}
print head reverse despam "moc:xedef#yleen:leoj" ;
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