[REBOL] RFF: empty? for blocks Re:(3)

1999-12-10 Thread giesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good idea. empty?'s current functionality is supplied by the word tail? We don't lose functionality by modifying the word empty?. Another option would be to supply a word really-empty? ;-) Yup. Something like: really-empty?: func [s [series!]] [empty? head s] I

[REBOL] Non-reentrant function calling in Rebol Re:(5)

1999-12-10 Thread giesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is understood. I'm talking about how long that staticly contexted 'f will remain accessible. My expectation is that as long as some live reference to 'f continues to haunt REBOL, 'f should stay alive as well. Of course, the value 'f references will be determined

[REBOL] Console GUI functions? Re:(5)

1999-12-10 Thread giesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I don't think the console will support graphical ANSI characters in the forseeable future. :-( Is this not portable or where is the problem? Robert I don't think this is very portable. Many platforms do not support color codes, What platforms? I think

[REBOL] Console GUI functions? Re:(5)

1999-12-10 Thread giesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might this be something you could do in a browser via CGI? Yes. But you'd need some javascripts on the browser to make it really "interactive". Ciao, /Gabriele./ o) .-^-. (--o | Gabriele Santilli / /_/_\_\ \

[REBOL] User Guide in PDF 8) Re:(3)

1999-12-10 Thread giesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about Postscript, then? Or just the all-in-one-html? REBOL said they'll provide the all-in-one html file; other than that, I think the best is providing a PDF *AND* a PS version. Postscript file can be easyly viewed and printed on the Amiga too. Ciao,

[REBOL] Curried functions Re:

1999-12-10 Thread lmecir
Got an improved version of CURRY. Can post it, if anyone's interested. Ladislav

[REBOL] CGI File uploading Re:(2)

1999-12-10 Thread A . J . Hedges
The first thing (file sizes changing) seems to be due to the MIME content separator that has been chosen by the browser being of different lengths on different runs. The POST content is divided up by these separators and so if the separator length changes by one character, the content length

[REBOL] REBOL on PSION - anyone ? Re:(2)

1999-12-10 Thread A . J . Hedges
I don't know about anyone else, but I'd be happy with a beta release that runs on my Psion 5mx, even if it didn't support console operations or networking. At least I could play with scripting while curled up on the sofa instead of sitting in a cold room in front of a PC (sad, I know...) Andrew

[REBOL] Console GUI functions? Re:(6)

1999-12-10 Thread bo
On 10-Dec-1999/12:45:21+1:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I don't think the console will support graphical ANSI characters in the forseeable future. :-( Is this not portable or where is the problem? Robert I don't think this is very portable. Many platforms do

[REBOL] Console GUI functions? Re:(7)

1999-12-10 Thread assembly
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: like the PalmPilot and other devices which only have a black white screen. Also, the Amiga console colors are dependent on the Workbench palette and generally only support 4 colors if I remember correctly. I think those colors are mapped to the

[REBOL] User Guide in PDF 8) Re:(5)

1999-12-10 Thread icimjs
Hi Ingo, you wrote Hey! The "macro/scripting" feature is slated for the dim Future - sometime past 1.2 (they're on 0.7.5) - how about REBOL for AbiSuite? It's OpenSource so someone (more qualified than I) could jump right in! Great idea. Someone (with more time than I) should definitely look

[REBOL] RFF: empty? for blocks Re:(5)

1999-12-10 Thread bo
Larry, Jim, others, This has been entered! On 9-Dec-1999/13:49:41-8:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Larry, This is a bug in FORM that should notice that the length of the block has been changed. I trust that Bo will log it... ;-) - jim At 10:40 AM 12/9/99 -0800, you wrote: Hi Ted You

[REBOL] Console GUI functions? Re:(7)

1999-12-10 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therefore, it would make it difficult to implement if the REBOL scripter said something like text="red" print "Hello" as REBOL won't know which color is (or if any are) mapped to red. Why not let the color mapping be down a path from the 'system object?

[REBOL] Re: User Guide in PDF 8) Re:(3)

1999-12-10 Thread doncox
On 10-Dec-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, not PDF. Not everyone has PDF capabilities. Perhaps ASCII, or RTF if you need formatting, many word processors accept RTF. Please, not RTF. Not everyone has RTF capabilities. (I for one haven't found an editor on Linux that understood RTF

[REBOL] User Guide in PDF 8) Re:(4)

1999-12-10 Thread ingo
Hi Elan, Those were the words of [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Ingo, Please, not RTF. Not everyone has RTF capabilities. (I for one haven't found an editor on Linux that understood RTF _AND_ was worth having around.) How about Postscript, then? Or just the all-in-one-html? Have you tried

[REBOL] Web Gui - Was Re: Console GUI functions?

1999-12-10 Thread ingo
Hi Robert, Those were the words of [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Might this be something you could do in a browser via CGI? Hi, I thought about this too (to use a Browser) but the problem is that a browser works page-oriented and you don't have access to the 'cursor' location. So to change the

[REBOL] Console GUI functions? Re:(6)

1999-12-10 Thread ingo
Those were the words of [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Well, let's see what we would need for a GUI function collection (just add what's missing): 1. Write a rectangular-block of data to a specific x,y coordinate, where content is rolled-out to the right and down. Refinement of this function

[REBOL] Re: Multiple Rebol Shells on MacOS Re:

1999-12-10 Thread ejolson
Hello, On 01-Dec-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to open multiple rebol shells on the Mac? --- end of quote --- You would probably need to make multiple copies of the application itself. What, Mac can't run multiple instances of a single

[REBOL] Multiple Rebol Shells on MacOS Re:(3)

1999-12-10 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- You wrote: What, Mac can't run multiple instances of a single executable? Are you talking about multiple copies on the HD like Rebol, Rebol1, Rebol2, etc.? Sounds limiting. --- end of quote --- Keep in mind, the mac is a bit (!) more document-centric than other platforms. In that

[REBOL] RFF: empty? for blocks Re:(3)

1999-12-10 Thread mailinglists
Hello Ted, Here's something else that I find confusing: list: [ 1 2 3 4 ] == [ 1 2 3 4 ] list2: next list == [ 2 3 4 ] clear list == [] list2: == [ 2 3 4 ] next list2: ** Script Error: Out of Range or Past End About every other operation I try with list2 errors. Exceptions

[REBOL] RFF: empty? for blocks Re:(2)

1999-12-10 Thread mailinglists
Hi Eric, Empty? isn't a synonym for tail?, as far as I know. Your example is a weird construction, because if I try to test empty? with tail I do this: test: [1 2 3] == [1 2 3] tail test == [] empty? test == false Why do you do: test-block: tail [1 2 3 4 5] It strikes me strange to