question about This

[David A. Bayly]

The page tables are put in a temp table as I recall, so I don't think 
that is it. But the path in system.compiler.paths used to locate the 
the macro script, which is in the #tools table may well be be the 
factor,

>I think it's because the page table for a static render is in a 
>persistent location, @websites.["#data"], and the page table for a 
>dynamic render is, usually, a local table variable created by 
>inetd.supervisor, or mainResponder.respond, or any other script that 
>calls html.setPageTableAddress.
>
>All html.getPageTableAddress does is return an address pointer to 
>the page table object that was last passed to 
>html.setPageTableAddress, in the current execution thread.
>
>-Brian
>
>--On 05/29/2002, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>>So you're saying that during dynamic rendering the page-table is, or is in,
>>a local variable outside my current scope? But if that's so, why am I able
>>to get at it with html.getpagetableaddress()? To put it more clearly, why
>>isn't the status of the page-table the same no matter how I get at it? If I
>>can say @html.getpagetableaddress()^.somescript, why can't I say "this"
>>from within that very same script? We are speaking of the very very same
>>object so I don't get why the status of these two ways of addressing it
>>differs. That's the problem I'm having here. m.


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