executionContexts

[Richmond Mathewson]

I do not really understand Dar Scott's

"As a product Revolution does NOT have
executionContexts except maybe as a reserved word of
some sort.  This is not an underdocumented feature of
the product.  I did not buy executioncontexts."

I bought 2 varieties of Runtime Revolution and the
both contain the 'term'

executionContexts

now this may be what Dar Scott terms an "intramural"
part of RR, HOWEVER:

it is part of what I have bought, and as such it would
seem that documenting it might not be a bad thing -
after all if I stumble across it and use it
incorrectly all sorts of unintended results may ensue.

Dar Scott's argument seems to imply that I may not
open my G4 Mac and poke around inside it because some
of the components are "intramural" - sure they are -
they are all 'inside the walls', but I don't see what
that has to do with it - I own the machine;

and, similarly, I own my copies of Dreamcard and
RRMedia.

Needless to say, this discussion leads us,
willy-nilly, towards whether, because I own an
instantiation of a programming environment I am
allowed to muck around with the source-code.

It does seem, however, that if Runtime Revolution (the
company) did not want folks like me to access stuff
like 'executionContexts' they would have built a
'wall' around it so that it was truly intramural.

A secondary point is what Dar Scott means by
"underdocumented" - executionContexts seems not to be
mentioned at all in the documentation.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

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"Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of meanings users attach to words and phrases."
                                       Mathewson, 2006
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