Implicit context access

[Brian Rice]

Hi all,

I realized we lack a way to generically refer to the implicit context, 
used for implicit-context message sends, and have a couple of ideas 
about that.

Motivation: This would be helpful because we often want to define 
utility methods on a namespace, but we also have the &in: optional 
keyword for load: which should in principle allow us to load any code 
as though any other namespace were the lobby, but we have to hardcode 
lobby references.

My initial idea was that in the context of method definitions, "_@() 
foo []." for example dispatches to Nil, but I had thought that maybe 
the surrounding namespace would be a better candidate.

After further thought, this is really a special case and should not 
muddy the grammar of Slate too much. So, I'd prefer if we had a simple 
selector that worked anywhere, like thisContext (which seems to cause 
parse errors right now - I'll look into that) but more about accessing 
the namespace object than an activation.

"thisNamespace" seems initially pretty good, but maybe there are better 
suggestions. Any ideas?

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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/