Im not totally familiar with 'new', but as I understand it, it is mostly used to create 'anonymous' instances of objects. There is very little difference between these two statements: Object theObject @=> myObjectReference; new Object @=> myObjectReference; The single difference is that the first statement also adds a reference to the new Object called 'theObject' to the current namespace. So you can access the single object created in that statement using theObject.member and also myObjectReference.member. The second statement creates an Object that is only accessible by myObjectReference.member. The only similarity to ! is that they are unary operators, i.e. they take one operand. spencer On Oct 21, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Kassen wrote:

On 10/21/06, Adam Tindale wrote: The manual is badly outdated. I am in the process of a major revision. Maybe we can start a page on the wiki of things to revise in the manual for the next release. If anyone wants to help I would greatly appreciate it.

Sure. I still don't speak Latex but I'd be happy to add stuff that pops up on the forum or that I stumble into myself to such a page.

The forum is a good source for such material because there are a lot of people just starting out there and they ask questions if the manual is unclear or outdated.

I'd be happy to write a few paragraphs as well on areas I'm comfortable with.

Oh, and could somebody please go into what the word "new" means in ChucK, exactly? It's currently mentioned in the manual exactly once (in that sense). It creates a new instance of a object and it's somehow syntactically similar to "!" and that's about it as far as the manual is concerned. This made the public static classes thing quite hard to understand for me untill Spencer demonstrated a while ago you can get around it (and now I understand that assignment trick).

So, great plan, I'd be happy to contribute to this wiki page but we'll still need the list because I predict that the people who discover something is missing from the manual are probably not the people who can write the manual entry....

My cents, Kas. _______________________________________________ chuck-users mailing list chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users