Re: circumflex/caret

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:53:21AM +0100, Ger Hobbelt wrote:
...
> distributed Monte Carlo simulation is running full out :-(((((((((((
> </rant>

no room left even for a coffe? ;))

> In short: <keep> is used as a flag for isolate / match / eval / union
> / intersect / call, i.e. all operations which can *instantiate*
> variables, to instruct them to allocate that variable in global scope.

ok, but what would that mean for 

  match <keep> (:: :x:) [:z:] /.../

where :z: is local? this instatiate (binds) :x: somewhere along :z:, not
:z: itself, hence on RETURN :z: is gone, then <keep> keeps what? just :x:
with the piece it grabbed from :z:, ~like ISOLATE does now?


-- 
paolo

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