In the Using error? section in Chapter 4, Code-Controlling Structures, we used probe to get more details of a specific error, and this returned an output starting with make error! [ ... ]. The error! is effectively an object that was constructed with make.
It turns out that make can be used to construct a new value for any datatype. It needs the type and, as a second argument, a specification for that type. This can be a value or a memory allocation, or another specification in the case of datatype!, native!, action!, routine!, and event!
Here are some examples:
;-- see Chapter06/objects.red:i: make integer! 5 ; == 5 ; (1)output: make string! 1000 ; == "" ; (2)blk: make block! 20 ; == [] ; (3)
In line (1), the specification ...
