[sc-users] .interpret

[James Harkins]

Can you say more about what you're trying to do?

People often think .interpret is a catchall for programming problems,
but usually it indicates that you're trying to go about something in
the wrong way.

hjh

On 12/8/06, koonce at grove.ufl.edu <koonce at grove.ufl.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Can someone tell me the trick to doing something like this:
>
> (
>
> a = \c ;
>
> b = a.asString ++ " =  1 " ;
>
> b.interpret ;
>
> c.postln ;
>
> )
>
>
> which works, but using declared variables instead, like the following:
>
> (
> var mySymbol ;
>
> a = \mySymbol ;
>
> b = a.asString ++ " =  1 " ;
>
> b.interpret ;
>
> mySymbol.postln ;
>
> )
>
> which seems to fail to compile the interpreted string with the variable
> declared outside, I guess. (See error below.)
>
>
>   ERROR: Variable 'mySymbol' not defined.
>     in file 'selected text'
>     line 1 char 16 :
>    mySymbol =  1
> -----------------------------------
> nil
> nil
>


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