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Re: Properties of junked script objects persist if referenced
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Re: Properties of junked script objects persist if referenced


  • Subject: Re: Properties of junked script objects persist if referenced
  • From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:30:10 +0100

Chris Espinosa wrote on Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:16:10 -0700:

>On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 03:52 PM, Nigel Garvey wrote:
>
>> Just how much of what is saved back to the file in this case?
>
>Without quoting the entire illuminating original post, I'll just give
>you the answer. You came very close to figuring it out yourself, in
>fact, you even demonstrated the key issue:
>
>> the result's contents
>> --> {6, 7, 8, 9, 10}
>
>'result' is a property of the script's context.
>
>And when a script is saved, it's saved with all the properties of its
>context, and therefore is saved with the last result of its execution,
>if any.

Thanks for the swift reply, Chris. :-) Forgive my obtuseness, but are you
saying that a *reference* to a property of a script object is not an
independent entity but comes within that script object's 'context'?

NG
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