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Rebol is a language with context-sensitive semantics - we call it "dialects". When explaining Rebol's semantics to people with any kind of CS background or who somehow otherwise know what "context-sensitive" means, that is the term that works best for getting the ideas across, to explain what the term "dialect" means.
This fails completely when we start using the term "context" to refer to an object, because it's not a term that anyone else uses for this, and it's hard to explain why we're using it. Normally, we'd just prefer to use other terms for this, but it's difficult when we have a function named CONTEXT that (inexplicably) just generates an object. Going forward, we'll be better off calling the function OBJECT (#2118) and never mentioning CONTEXT again.
With #2118, this is just a matter of adding a value alias for the new OBJECT named CONTEXT, and putting in a comment saying it's deprecated. That will give us time to get rid of references to the CONTEXT function.
CC - Data [ Version: r3 master Type: Wish Platform: All Category: Mezzanine Reproduce: Always Fixed-in:none ]
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Submitted by: BrianH
Rebol is a language with context-sensitive semantics - we call it "dialects". When explaining Rebol's semantics to people with any kind of CS background or who somehow otherwise know what "context-sensitive" means, that is the term that works best for getting the ideas across, to explain what the term "dialect" means.
This fails completely when we start using the term "context" to refer to an object, because it's not a term that anyone else uses for this, and it's hard to explain why we're using it. Normally, we'd just prefer to use other terms for this, but it's difficult when we have a function named CONTEXT that (inexplicably) just generates an object. Going forward, we'll be better off calling the function OBJECT (#2118) and never mentioning CONTEXT again.
With #2118, this is just a matter of adding a value alias for the new OBJECT named CONTEXT, and putting in a comment saying it's deprecated. That will give us time to get rid of references to the CONTEXT function.
CC - Data [ Version: r3 master Type: Wish Platform: All Category: Mezzanine Reproduce: Always Fixed-in:none ]
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: