Thanks Romano, I have had very exciting moment searching the VID source, experiencing at the console, trying, failing, asking, being answered ... Rebol is like some fractals, the more closer you look at it the more you find interresting stuff, and it never stops. And its not like God, or stars, or the number pi, it is a human creation ! Thank you Carl at REBOL ! Amazing !
Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Romano Paolo Tenca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 1:23 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: draw has no access to the current face > Hi pat, > > > Romano Paolo Tenca (BTW may I call you Romano for short? ) > > Yes! > > > Quoting Romano the with "magically binds the effect block words to the face > > objects words". > > > > I have some questions about this: > > > > Could someone tell me more about this "magic" with ? why is it no more > > needed in "user-data red"? why effect is now a set-word! ? > > All the magic is relative to object and binding of words. When you define an > object starting from a previous object: > > ob: make object! [a: 1] > make ob [a: 2] > > you assign a new value (2) to the word 'a of the object: this can happen > because the word 'a in the block is bound to the word 'a in the object before > executing the block. The sequence of operations is: > > 1) duplicate object ob and its context > 2) bind the block [a: 2] to the new context > 3) evaluate the block [a: 2] > > Now in 3) when you change the value of 'a in the block, you really change the > value of 'a in the object. > > The point is that words are not variable, they have not a value, they are > alphanumeric pointers to context, which are "invisible" structure created by > make object! (not only). > > The 'with word of Vid is a shortcut for something like this, only 'ob is the > style face and the block is the 'with block. > > The 'effect word of Vid, instead, does not bind the block to the object > context, only assign the block to the effect field. > > Effect [draw [pen user-data]] is like: > > new-face: make face [] > new-face/effect: [draw [pen user-data]] > > instead: > > with [effect: [draw [pen user-data]]] is like > > new-face: make face [effect: [draw [pen user-data]]] > > only in the latter case the block is bound to the face object before > executing. > > --- > Ciao > Romano > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Etudiant: Wanadoo t'offre le Pack eXtense Haut D�bit soit 150,92 euros d'�conomies ! > Et pour 1 euro de plus, re�ois le CD-ROM du jeu Dark Age of Camelot > + 1 mois de jeu en r�seau offert ! > Clique ici : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/mail.etudiant ________________________________________________________________ Etudiant: Wanadoo t'offre le Pack eXtense Haut D�bit soit 150,92 euros d'�conomies ! Et pour 1 euro de plus, re�ois le CD-ROM du jeu Dark Age of Camelot + 1 mois de jeu en r�seau offert ! Clique ici : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/mail.etudiant -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
