From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 14:13:12 PDT
Il me semble que le 10/06/03 à 15:02 -0500, Tom McDougal nous racontait:
>Are DefConst and DeclareUnit documented somewhere? I didn't find
>anything in the usual places.
>
>What is the difference between
> constant x := 3;
>and
> DefConst('x, 3);
>
>I'm pretty clear for this simple example you would use the former not
>the latter, but...
The first defines a constant within the current scope with x.
DefConst (a deprecated albeit used by everyone form of
DefineGlobalConstant) defines a global constant (as the newer name
mentions it).
You can put the first form in a function to be executed on a Newton.
You cannot (well, you can, but you'll get an error on the Newton) put
the second form in a such a function since this is a method to be
called at compile time only.
More details:
NewtonScript Reference (constant), NTK User Guide (DefConst).
DeclareUnit is very different. It's to be used with DefineUnit. It's
a way to share NewtonScript objects between packages without using
global variables and with a way to know when the object provider is
present or gets removed.
Documentation is in the Q&As, there:
http://www.unna.org/unna/apple/documentation/developer/QAs-2.x/html/intrpack.htm
You might also want to check the sample code (called Moo Unit I think).
Paul
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