Re: Re: [Webmacro-devel] #const question

[Keats <ke...@ea...>]

> > #newobject $x
> > #set $x.SomeProp = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
> >
> > I'm pretty sure Brian has made the parser smart enough to do all this at
> > build time, since there are no runtime dependencies.
>
> Hmm, really? will #set auto detect that something is in the build context?
> If so... wow!
>
> In which case I'd just need to add "as const" keywords to #newobject and
> then people using #newobject don't even need to care if it is a const or
> not (i.e. use #set as normal, not #const).
>
> Surely though, using #set would require WM to detect a non-build time
right
> hand assignment, which would result in an exception surely?

After looking at the code, I see that #set does the actual assignment at
runtime.  You can't do what you want at build time because a constant has to
be a SimpleVariable (i.e., no dots).  I'm not sure what it would take to
change this.  Do you have a compelling need for this?

Keats