[REBOL] How to form a rule?

1999-12-27 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
Hi, I am now struggling with a 'parse a little bit and need an advice let's say I have some matching rule generated by 'build-rule function: user-entry: "som? t*t to p??se" rule: build-rule user-entry will produce something like: [thru "s" "om" skip " " "t" thru "t" " " "to" " " "p"

[REBOL] [REBOL] Nobody wants to play with me :-( Re:

1999-12-27 Thread bo
Thanks for that fix, Daniele! On 26-Dec-1999/16:35:42-1:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [REBOL] Nobody wants to play with me :-( Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:28:27 -0800 Subject: [REBOL] Nobody wants to play with me :-( Message-Id: [EMAIL

[REBOL] Email notification list

1999-12-27 Thread bsk
Title: Looks like there are two mailing lists according to the website... the notification one doesn't seem to be working. I haven't gotten a response out of it when I tried subscribing (twice) last week: Email Notification List Get on the list! Be the first to learn of important updates,

[REBOL] REBOL/media

1999-12-27 Thread bsk
Title: Where can I find some more information about Rebol/media? Is there a mailing list archive somewhere? --Brian S. Kokernak[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://headrush.net/bsk/

[REBOL] REBOL/media Re:

1999-12-27 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find some more information about Rebol/media? Is there a mailing list archive somewhere? REBOL/Media was not released yet -pekr- -- Brian S. Kokernak [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://headrush.net/bsk/

[REBOL] logical value referencing ... Re:

1999-12-27 Thread KGD03011
Hi Elan, I've read your 1400+ line refutation of Joel's explanation of a function. I agree with much of what you say, but there is one point I don't think is quite right: 2.3 Conclusion: 2.3.1 An empty literal string does not reference "the empty string" because a string! value does not have

[REBOL] How to form a rule? Re:

1999-12-27 Thread KGD03011
Hi Petr, Here's a technique Gabriele taught me: str: "Something to say, some text to parse, something else" == {Something to say, some text to parse, something else} rule: ["s" "om" skip " " "t" thru "t" " " "to" " " "p" skip skip "se" to end] == ["s" "om" skip " " "t" thru "t" " " "to" " "

[REBOL] emacs mode Re:(2)

1999-12-27 Thread sterling
It does nothing? Even if you load up a script and then do 'Meta-X rebol-mode'? Odd. Sterling Something like http://www.rebol.org/rebol.el However, it does nothing (zero, zip) to the installation of EMacs at my university, so I wish you better luck. Kind regards, -- Ole Friis

[REBOL] accessing sql from rebol ? (newbie)

1999-12-27 Thread juff
I know very little about Rebol, impressed so far but I can't figure out how you would access data from an external sql database we use a C api so i guess I'll have to write some kind of interface using that but how can I call it and return the results ? is it possible ? what's the best approach

[REBOL] accessing sql from rebol ? (newbie) Re:

1999-12-27 Thread ralph
I know very little about Rebol, impressed so far but I can't figure out how you would access data from an external sql database we use a C api so i guess I'll have to write some kind of interface using that but how can I call it and return the results ? is it possible ? what's the best

[REBOL] Series essay Re:(6)

1999-12-27 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/27/1999 at 1:15 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:{{ It seems clear that context-juggling is implicitly performed via entry and exit to the bodies of functions and 'use, as in: a: "global a" == "global a" f: func [][print a] g: func [/local

[REBOL] [REBOL] Nobody wants to play with me :-( Re:

1999-12-27 Thread donm
Thankyou Daniele, I struggled to find the error but could not. When I run the program direct with do %greetings.r it works as expected, but if I paste the program into the console it always stops with an error at that screensize command. Only by breaking the program there and

[REBOL] logical value referencing ... Re:(10)

1999-12-27 Thread icimjs
Hi Joel, we appear to agree on the role of load in the translation process. Glad to see that the translation process itself is now public knowledge. Looking forward to more comments. Elan

[REBOL] Series essay Re:(5)

1999-12-27 Thread icimjs
Hi Joel, hope you don't mind my butting in. e == [a b c] print e 1 2 12 c ** Script Error: c has no value. ** Where: c same? 'c third e == false This WASN'T what I expected. It appears that the third element of 'e is a different 'c from the one whose

[REBOL] emacs mode Re:(3)

1999-12-27 Thread hmf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does nothing? Even if you load up a script and then do 'Meta-X rebol-mode'? Odd. not a thing in regular emacs, 'cept (REBOL) on the mode line. I noticed that the mode is supposed to work with xemacs, but mine didn't even see it. shucks.

[REBOL] logical value referencing ... Re:(9)

1999-12-27 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reference in REBOL has a specific meaning. It describes a process that occurs when a set-word! type value is evaluated. Words certainly can refer to values. However, that's not the only way the concept of "reference" is used in the REBOL documentation available

[REBOL] logical value referencing ... Re:(9)

1999-12-27 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) At translation time the text which begins with (sans formatting) [a: "" b: copy "" ;...etc... is translated into a block. The second element of that block is initialized to refer to the empty string, as is the fifth element of that

[REBOL] Thanks

1999-12-27 Thread petrahof
Thanks To all who responded to my plea for help with a very simple solution. However, I have another question. I am familiar with several pgm lang. Would anyone care to comment on whether or not I should learn either Perl or Rebol or both? I fel I need to learn at least one language really

[REBOL] Series essay Re:(7)

1999-12-27 Thread news . ted
On 12/27/1999 at 4:08 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: {{In the standard implementation model, Pascal local variables are allocated on the stack upon entry to a procedure, and deallocated upon exit from the procedure. There's no way to make a local var from one procedure refer to the content of a

[REBOL] Thanks Re:

1999-12-27 Thread news . ted
The classic approach is to define the goal first, and then choose the language that meets the goal's requirements. If your goal is to get a job on a team doing Web development this spring, then perl is the obvious choice. If your goal is to do independent development, then choose whichever you

[REBOL] logical value referencing ... Re:(2)

1999-12-27 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Elan, (I think Joel may have used the phrase "the empty string" as a concept rather than meaning "the unique empty string in the example".) That's a completely reasonable interpretation of what I wrote. I actually meant to say "an empty string", which is

[REBOL] Re: finding an item's position Re:

1999-12-27 Thread ejolson
Hello, On 26-Dec-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: foo: [a b c d e] == [a b c d e] index? find foo 'b == 2 Short and sweet, thanks. Now to start figuring out how I want to make the rest of the script work. One part will be to let the user choose the order of the items. First I need to start

[REBOL] Series essay Re:(8)

1999-12-27 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/27/1999 at 4:08 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: {{In the standard implementation model, Pascal local variables are allocated on the stack upon entry to a procedure, and deallocated upon exit from the procedure. There's no way to make a local var from one

[REBOL] logical value referencing ... Re:(10)

1999-12-27 Thread icimjs
At 06:14 PM 12/27/99 -0600, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reference in REBOL has a specific meaning. It describes a process that occurs when a set-word! type value is evaluated. Words certainly can refer to values. However, that's not the only way the concept of "reference" is used

[REBOL] Thanks Re:

1999-12-27 Thread Al . Bri
Petra wrote: ... However, I have another question. I am familiar with several pgm lang. Would anyone care to comment on whether or not I should learn either Perl or Rebol or both? I feel I need to learn at least one language really well so that I can be something more than a help desk flunky.

[REBOL] Thanks Re:

1999-12-27 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks To all who responded to my plea for help with a very simple solution. However, I have another question. I am familiar with several pgm lang. Would anyone care to comment on whether or not I should learn either Perl or Rebol or both? I fel I need to