OpenEuphoria

Re: object(x) rethink

• Posted by jacques deschênes <desja at ?lob?trotter.net> Mar 03, 2008
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Jason wrote:

>I dunno. I can see it both ways. But changing the behavior would make it
>inconsistent
>with integer(x) and sequence(x) unless those, too, returned false for
>uninitialized
>variables.

right

>And since procedures are different from variables in Euphoria, I don't know
>if "object(func_name)" makes much sense, especially since you can use or wrap
>routine_id().

right again

Derek wrote:

>The assigned() function would return 1 if the symbol has a value, and 0 if it
>doesn't. This information is useful so we can tell if we need to initialize
>the symbol or not.

You already know if you have an uninitialized variable as it generate a runtime
error when you try to use it.
I'm not convince of the usefullness of assigned().

>...With the possible exception being that a function that
>took a routine_id could be able to tell you things about the routine, such is
>it a function or procedure, what is name and namespace is, what is parameter
>signature is, etc ...

to be pedandic ;) in c# and other languages it's called "reflection".


Jacques