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RE: Mathew's interpreter

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jul 30, 2002
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On 30 Jul 2002, at 7:13, Matthew Lewis wrote:

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kat [mailto:gertie at PELL.NET]
> 
> > Say, Mathew,, can the routine_id()s for vars in your 
> > interpreter be *assigned* 
> > or just looked up?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean.  You have no control over what the actual id for
> any
> variable is.  The working of variable_id is almost identical to routine_id. 
> Any
> variable in scope when variable_id is called should return a valid
> variable_id.
> 
> You can, however, *create* variables on the fly.  In fact, you can create a
> variable, and then refer to it directly:
> 
> -- silly example...
> include variable.em
> integer foo_id
> foo_id = create_variable( "foo", TYPE_SEQUENCE, "bar")
> puts(1, foo )
> write_variable( foo_id, "\n")
> puts(1, read_variable( foo_id) )
> 
> I hope this answers your question.

Yes, thanks. What's it's scope?

Kat