Re: [Oorexx-devel] Native API GetScope()

[Rick M. <obj...@gm...>]

The "scope" is the hierarcy level that defines a given method.  For example,

::class foobar
::method foo
  say "hello"

::class fubar subclass foobar
::method fu
  say "goodbye"

 The scope of the "foo" method is the .Foobar class.  The scope of the
"fu" method is the "fu" class.  The method scope determines a lot of
things, such as which variable pool gets accessed by the EXPOSE
instruction and what value SUPER gets set to in that method's context.

Generally, the scope object is a class, but for methods that are added
directly to object instances, the scope ends up being the object
instance.

I can't really think of many good uses for this, but it seemed like it
should be made available for completeness.

Rick

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Mark Miesfeld <mie...@gm...> wrote:
> One of the methods in the API is GetScope(), which returns a
> RexxObjectPtr that is the current active method's scope.
>
> I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what the scope object is, or
> really more to the point, what I could do with it.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
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