[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The documentation is very poor concerning objects because there is a
>paragragh in the objects documentation as follows...
>
>The in function can also be used to set words:
>         set in fred 'balance $20.00
>
>         print fred/balance
>         $20.00
>
>This paragraph is telling me I can set a new value into an existing object
>using the following syntax...
>
>set in object 'word value
>
>But obviously it doesn't work.

New value: Yes.
New word: No.

The example used in the docs uses a word that is already
defined in the object. It doesn't imply that new words
can be put into a context by the in function, just that
words already defined in an object context are retrieved.

Brian Hawley

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