Hello everyone :)

Long time no talk, lots has happened since my last email, I'll try to 
make a catch up email soon. This is about an email I got this morning 
with a question that I don't know how to answer. Here's the question, 
should ,&y LDR be able to access object/y:

@object

&pos &x $1 &y $1

&get-x ( -- x )
     ,&x LDR
     JMP2r

@object/get-y ( -- y )
     ,&y LDR
     JMP2r

I was sent a length of code that doesn't seem to be easily refactored 
into something that would work without. While it is a quick fix in both 
uxnasm and drifblim, I found examples of code that rely on these new 
scopes(@object/get-y) to re-use single character variables, example:

@object

&pos &x $1 &y $1

&get-x ( -- x )
	&l ( -- )
	,&x LDR
	JMP2r

@object/get-y ( -- y )
	&l ( -- )
	,&y LDR
	JMP2r

If I went ahead with this change, it might break these routines. So I'd 
like to know your opinion on this. Goren suggested that we could do 
something like &&l to create &get-x/l.

Let me know what you think :) Have a good one!

Dll

Thanks everyone for the feedback, I'm glad you liked the idea, it is now 
merged and documented:

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal_scope.html

I've also written a new example file in a kind of pseudo Objective-Uxn 
style, where the state of an entire object is done through accessors and 
the local state is modified only by its own methods. I ported the timer 
example for a smalltalk-80 examples folder:

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn/tree/main/item/projects/examples/gui/timer.tal

This makes use of a new thing, which has been discussed before but never 
implemented, being able to call local subroutines without having to type 
the scope's entire name each time, similarly to how you'd !print or 
?print. This uses the scope delimiter character /, So instead of 
print/byte, when within the @print scope, you can simply /byte. It's a 
tiny change to the emulator that completes the handling of scope in Uxntal:

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn/commit/202ca788009978a204dbb0d6892eea89315828d5

Enjoy!