Calling a method [like a function pointer]

[K]

Interesting......

So, send (not in time) executes the handler immediately and awaits its completion returning the "return XXX" value in the result? WOW, I read the books and completely missed that if my understanding of what Scott Dar is saying.


Kevin


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 --- On Sat 06/12, Dar Scott < dsc at swcp.com > wrote:
From: Dar Scott [mailto: dsc at swcp.com]
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:10:52 -0600
Subject: Re: Calling a method [like a function pointer]

<br>On Jun 12, 2004, at 12:38 PM, K wrote:<br><br>> Okay I have tried value() after 1000 or so calls function suddenly get <br>> cannot evaluate methods and variables that it previously executed (as <br>> stated in my posting reguarding value()).  Is there a way to invoke a <br>> function by name and retrieve it's return value other than value() <br>> since it has significant anomalies?  This is simular to calling a <br>> function pointer in C++ or CallByName() in Visal Basic.<br><br>No function pointer.  However, there are other alternatives.<br><br>The functions merge() & value() and commands 'do', 'call' & 'send' all <br>evaluate and might be useful.  There are ways to execute commands in <br>the first and functions in latter.  Besides using function names, you <br>can also create expressions and evaluate those in the appropriate <br>context.<br><br>You can return values from a 'send' (not in time) by using return in <br>the callee and looking at result() in the caller.<br><br>Dar Scott<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>use-revolution mailing list<br>use-revolution at lists.runrev.com<br>http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution<br>

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