[REBOL] Re: REBOL's scoping rules Re:(4)

2000-07-20 Thread rebol
Hello Brian, Thanks for the brilliant and depthgoing explanation of contexts. I must admit that I was wrong in implying that word lookup somehow happened hieracally at runtime. Can we agree that word lookup is one-level (so to speak), but that you can still build heiracal (someone *please* spe

[REBOL] Re: REBOL's scoping rules Re:(2)

2000-07-19 Thread rebol
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], On 19-Jul-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> In REBOL you don't only have two scopes (contexts) - you have a tree of contexts, >each one with a parent context, the top level context being what you could call >global variables. > > This is pr

[REBOL] Re: REBOL's scoping rules

2000-07-19 Thread rebol
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], Well, scope in REBOL is a quite different beast than in most other languages. In REBOL you don't only have two scopes (contexts) - you have a tree of contexts, each one with a parent context, the top level context being what you could call global variables. REBOL does