Re: Using the name of objects

The namespace for local variables and objects is allocated as temporary
storage, and
is disposed of as soon as compilation is complete. There is no text
available at run time
to find anywhere.
rick

On 11/26/06, Cees van Zeeland <cees.van.zeeland_at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> Ok, that's clear.
> But what does the Forth find when it meets foo3?
> I was wondering whether it's something one can fool around with inside a
> colon definition
> .....
>
> To explain a little more:
> I am working at a page-layout system for a music engraving program.
> It would be nice if I could use objects that refer to certain pages of a
> piece of music by
> name. But only for the time being (that's why I thought of local objects)
> Another piece of music uses the same class properties (instruments, active
> staffs, etc).
> It would be nice to bundle the whole thing in one colon definition and see
> the outcome on
> screen before further using it.
>
> On 26 Nov 2006 at 8:33, Rick VanNorman wrote:
>
> > Your conclusion is correct -- local objects have no name in the
> > dictionary, nor do objects created via NEW.
> >
> > On 11/26/06, Cees van Zeeland <cees.van.zeeland_at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> > : Bar
> > [objects ExampleClass1 makes foo3 objects]
> > foo3 .ObjName ;
> >
> > Bar
> >
> > Is the name non-existent with local objects?
> > Any suggestion would be fine.
> >
> >
>
>
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