The paradigm of containers and self-referenced names

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Wed Mar 23 11:25:12 EST 2005


On Mar 22, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Mikey wrote:

> Well, I re-read your original post, and I don't see anything wrong
> with the way RR handles  the two cases you cited - to review, if I
> have two handlers like the following:
>
> on mouseUp
>    put myVar + 3 into myVar
> end mouseUp
>
> and
>
> on mouseUp
>    add 3 to myVar
> end mouseUp

I apologize for adding to the confusion.

I was not responding to these examples in particular, but to the 
general statements about the paradigm that allows a name to have either 
of two meanings depending of usage in the context.

Dar

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