REDUCE/no-set

Here is a frequent pattern: you have a block of set-words and value expressions. You want to reduce the expressions, but leave the set-words as is.

For example, you might have:

spec: [ 
    size: xy + 100x200
    offset: parent / 2
    text: join base specific
]

Then you want to do something like:

a-spec: make map! spec

or perhaps:

a-gob: make gob! spec

But, that is a problem, because you cannot easily reduce the block without the set-words getting set.

Fortunately, along comes REDUCE/no-set. This refinement to REDUCE prevents the set operation for set-words within the block.

Using it on the spec block above, you would see something like:

>> probe reduce/no-set spec
== [
    size: 240x480
    offset: 100x200
    text: "App Prefs"
]

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