Re: Dokgen failing.

["Martin Elwin" <martin@elwin.com>]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Ola Bini <ola.bini@gmail.com> wrote:
>> DefaultBehavior FlowControl in = macro("executes the arguments with
>> the receiver as context and ground, and then returns the result of the
>> last argument.
>>
>> call arguments map(evaluateOn(cell("@"))) last)
>>
>> which could give:
>>
>> cell(:val) in (
>> kind?("DefaultMethod") ||
>> kind?("LexicalBlock") ||
>> kind?("DefaultMacro") ||
>> kind?("LexicalMacro") ||
>> kind?("DefaultSyntax")
>> )
>
> Well, I would recommend doing this (which already works):
>
> case(cell(:val) kind,
>  or("DefaultMethod", "LexicalBlock",
>     "DefaultMacro", "LexicalMacro", "DefaultSyntax"),
>   ;; do something here)
>
> of course, what you want can almost be done with "do", except that "do"
> doesn't return the last value.

Right, for this specific case - I understand. But I was really looking
for a do which returns the last result instead of the receiver (like
the in macro above, which I based on do), which is quite convenient
when accessing multiple cells on "deep" objects:

if(a b c in(kind?("Foo") || cell?("bar"), ....

However, if it doesn't exist, it's easy to define the macro yourself -
wherever needed - one of the charms of a language like this...!

Thanks,

/M