Re: [Visualpython-users] Documenting delete

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> --On Wednesday, December 27, 2000 1:37 PM -0500 Ari Heitner 
> <ahe...@an...> wrote:
> > why not include a little "delete" function that takes the name, and does
> > this for you?
> 
> Should this be part of Visual, or just an example in the documentation?
> 
> (It is my understanding from previous conversations that there may be a 
> problem with performing the delete inside Visual, due to thread 
> synchronization, or something....?)

um, defined in visual. only used from the user-thread side if that's what's
needed for safety.

needs to do a bit of magic to look up a variable name in the caller's
namespace, and kill it. but hey, this is python, that's the kind of
gobbledygood this language is for, right?

:)

ari