Hello Christian,

Thank you very much! "to-set-word" - is what I have missed.
And "prepare" function  is exactly what I need.

Saturday, December 6, 2003, 6:37:09 PM, you wrote:



>> I am developer of object oriented database for dynamic languages
>> (www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/dybase.html)
>> Currently it supports PHP, Python and Ruby. Now I am going to develop
>> Rebol API for DyBASE.

CL> that's very, very cool!

>> I read Rebol manual but some questions are still not clear for me.
>> Can some Rebol guru suggest me the best way of dynamic instantiation
>> of object (so that structure of the object is not known at compile
>> time)?

CL> fortunately that's rather easy.

CL> b: copy []
CL> append b to-set-word "foo"
CL> append b "bar"
CL> obj: make object! b
CL> probe obj

CL>     make object! [
CL>        foo: "bar"
CL>     ]

>> For example I have block containing field names and values:
>> ["x" 1 "y" 2 "z" 3]
>> I want to construct object with these fields, so that result will be
>> the same as after creating object using "make":

>> obj: make object! [x: 1 y: 2 z: 3]

CL> you'll probably prefer to construct objects like shown above, but ...

CL> prepare: func [ x ] [
CL>          r: make type? x length? x
CL>          foreach [ k v ] x [
CL>                  repend r [ to-set-word k v ]
CL>          ]
CL>          r
CL> ]

CL> make object! prepare ["x" 1 "y" 2 "z" 3]

CL> best regards,
CL> -- chris




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