Re: [Rd] checking existence of active bindings

2007-04-01 Thread Martin Elff
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 23:56, Tony Plate wrote: > Is there any way to check whether an active binding exists without > actually calling the active binding? I'd like to be able to do > something like exists("x", ...) and know whether "x" exists without > actually fetching its value if it is an

[Rd] checking existence of active bindings

2007-03-28 Thread Tony Plate
Is there any way to check whether an active binding exists without actually calling the active binding? I'd like to be able to do something like exists("x", ...) and know whether "x" exists without actually fetching its value if it is an active binding (because it could consume significant res