if .context~executable~isa(.Method) then say .context~executable~scope On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 10:32 AM Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at> wrote:
> While working on the multithreaded related parts it has become clear that > the term "scope" is very > important, such that I linked the word "scope" to the respective section > that describes it. > > Also, looking at questions and answers in the RexxLA mailing list related > to multithreading "scope" > turns out to not be well understood, if at all. With the interlinking and > additional explanations > this may have been improved a little bit. > > However, there is one omission IMHO for ooRexx. ooRexx being a dynamic > language should allow for > introspection/reflection (which it does in many different aspects) of the > current scope, such that > one can learn within a method to which scope it belongs to, got defined > for. It would help the > ooRexx programmer to experiment with and to determine the scope of a > method at runtime. > > To the best of my knowledge it is not possible to get at the method's > scope at runtime. > > Currently, within a method we can get at the object that invoked it (self) > and its immediate > superclass (super), but not at the scope (class object) that the method > belongs to. As a method may > be used in different scopes depending on the context, maybe RexxContext > would be a class where a new > method "scope" could be added to return the "scope": for routines it would > return .nil, for methods > the class object that defines the scope of the method, and .nil for > floating methods. So the idea > would be that ".context~scope" would return it. > > Would that be a sensible solution or are there better possibilities? > > Maybe adding an entry "SCOPE" to the TraceObject instance and supplying > the value that gets used for > the ">I>" trace line? > > What do you think? > > ---rony > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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