On 1/4/2000 at 5:37 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"since all you have to do is compare two pointers to memory and two
indexes."
Most of us don't have access to the implementation details, so it's
hard to say what REBOL has to do. All we can see is what it does.
Cool experiment, though.
Do you
Just a thought, is there any function/s from people's formerly
favourite :-D languages, that are missing in REBOL? For example,
there's the BASIC string functions (LEFT RIGHT MID) that Donald Dalley
wrote about. Some time back there was a mention that REBOL didn't have
LISP's CDR CAR functions,
Hi,
I want Rebol to read a text file with the following format.
NameNamePhone
NameNamePhone
... ie. a tab separating first name, last name and phone number.
Now I want Rebol to convert it to:
Name Name Phone
Name Name Phone
.. ie. Remove the first tab in every
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a thought, is there any function/s from people's formerly
favourite :-D languages, that are missing in REBOL? For example,
there's the BASIC string functions (LEFT RIGHT MID) that Donald Dalley
wrote about. Some time back there was a mention that REBOL didn't
Hi, just wondering about regular expressions in Rebol.
1. Is there any support for regular expressions planned (or is Rebol only
going to support 'parse for everything regular expressions might be used for
that isn't already taken care of by words like 'find.)?
2. I've heard that 'parse
datebases
howdy guys,
ok, having items in a database, like:
number
title
summery
list (list-item 1, list-item 2,...)
price
would it be best to include all these fields per item, or have all of
each field grouped together? like:
;numbers: [1,2,1000]
;titles: [blah blah]
I wanna be able to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm really late with this, but this is an easy way to do it, and it
shows yet another use of modifying "literal" series.
e: ['e back reverse "fg"]
== ['e back reverse "fg"]
print e
e f
print e
e g
print e
e f
Excellent! Yet another nail in the coffin
The new manual says:
Generally, the use of do for evaluating strings is not a good
practice. It is much slower to process than evaluating blocks,
and the context of words in a string is unknown.
The first drawback ("much slower") is certainly understandable, but
the second ("context
Hi Stefan,
I believe this will do what you are after..
data: read/lines %file-in.txt
foreach line data [replace line "^-" " "]
write/lines %file-out.txt data
Cheers,
Allen K
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Also note this :
f2: func [/local a] [a: "local" print a do "print a"]
local
global
{{
Generally, the use of do for evaluating strings is not a good
practice. It is much slower to process than evaluating blocks,
and the context of words in a string is unknown.
}}
It may mean
Hi, Ted,
SHORT VERSION:
1) I'm not sure what "scalar" really means in REBOL (and a simple
listing of the datatypes that are called scalar isn't an
explanation). Maybe that's my fault?
2) Without a clearly-stated model/specification from the final
authority (REBOL, Inc.), we may
Hi -t,
you wrote:
I wanna be able to use my little database as the basis for a shopping
cart, or to convert it to xml, but am not sure about how to handle
nested blocks.
db: [
[id-1 "name-1" {description-1}]
[id-2 "name-2" {description-2}]
[id-3 "name-3" {description-3}]
[id-4 "name-4"
Thanks, Ladislav,
I wasn't worried about the storage per se. I've just felt that there's
a gap in the REBOL meta-vocabulary, which makes it difficult to
distinguish between the REBOL object called "value" and what that
object contains. You used the term "state" along the way, which works
for
Hi Ted,
On 1/4/2000 at 5:37 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"since all you have to do is compare two pointers to memory and two
indexes."
Most of us don't have access to the implementation details, so it's
hard to say what REBOL has to do. All we can see is what it does.
I guess it was really a
Hi Eric
Very nice solution. Definitely the best so far.
Larry
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Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 12:37 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Yet another puzzle Re:
Hi folks,
There are all sorts of ways to produce a value for 'e that
Hi Keith,
Hi, just wondering about regular expressions in Rebol.
1. Is there any support for regular expressions planned (or is Rebol only
going to support 'parse for everything regular expressions might be used for
that isn't already taken care of by words like 'find.)?
Funny you should ask.
Hello REBOLs,
How can I close a connection opened with the
dial-up tool of windows 98?
Carlos
Hello REBOLs,
Whenever I sent an HTML page to my mailbox using REBOL then I
can't view it with Outlook Express 98. All I can see is its source
code.
Anyone can help me?
Carlos
You've
got to set it to be HTML mail--otherwise it defaults to
text.
I've
got a snippet of a program that I'm working on here, stolen mostly from
rebol.org, that does just that. . . .
Don't
y'all run it and deluge me with this web page. :)
REBOL [ Title:
Email Headers File:
Hi Carlos.
Did you try include to head of your mail something like
Content-Type: text/html
Hope this help.
Jan
Hello REBOLs,
Whenever I sent an HTML page to my mailbox using REBOL then I can't view it with
Outlook Express 98. All I can see is its source code.
Anyone can help me?
Pekr,
I see your point. However, if Amino releases the AmigaOS as open source
I can see it as being the Linux for non-propeller-heads. It gives power
to those who want it and a standard GUI for those who want ease-of-use.
And everyone who has ever wanted the chance to fix or improve the
On 1/4/2000 at 10:59 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
{
I'm not sure I understand how you mean "predefined". I'd be interested
in hearing more on what you had in mind.
}
I probably mean "able to be predefined", or immutable in the sense that
you only really need one.
Part of this is rationalizing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pekr,
I see your point. However, if Amino releases the AmigaOS as open source
I can see it as being the Linux for non-propeller-heads. It gives power
to those who want it and a standard GUI for those who want ease-of-use.
And everyone who has ever wanted the
Hi Jan,
thank yo very much for the help
Carlos
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Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 4:15 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Can't view an HTML page sent with REBOL Re:
Hi Carlos.
Did you try include to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 04-Jan-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I think the most comprehensive list of various functions were those
one of Dick Whiting. It was for REBOL 1.x, but rather cool. Added to the
end of this message ...
Petr: I looked for these, but did not find them.
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
On 04-Gen-00, you wrote:
l 1) what is the meaning of "result" in the case:
l (print "Hello" 1)
l , is it only the returned value 1?
Yes --- I meant result in the sense of returned value. The fact
that the "result" in general sense may be something more than just
Hi Eric,
Funny you should ask. I just posted search-text.r to rebol.org, which is an
attempt to simulate regular expressions in REBOL. Please have a look at it
and tell me what you think.
http://www.rebol.org/utility/search-text.r
Whoops, dead URL. Come to think of it, rebol.org itself
Ladislav wrote:
Did you think about the following question: Is there a need to have
the functions with unlimited number of arguments in Rebol?
This works well for me:
Unlimited_Arguments: func [Arguments [block!]] [print Arguments]
Unlimited_Arguments ['Arg1 'Arg2 'Arg3 'Arg4]
Arg1 Arg2 Arg3
On 04-Jan-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whenever I sent an HTML page to my mailbox using REBOL then I can't view it
with Outlook Express 98. All I can see is its source code.
Anyone can help me?
Carlos: Jan suggested the Content-Type header, but, with REBOL 2.x's rare bug,
you should also
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree that TUPLE! is mis-documented as a series datatype. It also
fails on INDEX? It's a scalar datatype like DATE! Might be worth
reporting to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I copied them on the message.
You're also right that
http://www.rebol.com/manual/valabout.html
Pekr,
There are some very smart Amigans. I'm sure going open source will definitely
improve the OS as we know it. It could also then be ported to native processor
code on many different systems (just like Linux is). If you don't want PPC
AmigaOS, you can use x86 AmigaOS or some other breed.
in SELMA , what is the file theword.r for , do i have to create one of my
own or do i
get the file from somewhere?
Hello Carl,
as some thread regarding REBOL parser is ongoing, and you mentioned you
finished new parser block of REBOL, could you describe here in short,
what changed with parse? Does it concerns only REBOL/View or 'parse
function in general?
Thank you,
-pekr-
ok wheredo i get notices.r from , or what is this file supposed to look like
(for selma)
aden burnie
Erin at rebol.com was generous in his response
to my problem repeated below:
-
Note: Symbols on the console may be deceptive.
s: "some text"==='some text"
reduce 's === s ; (first s )
print (reduce 's) ===
On 1/4/2000 at 3:02 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
{{
...but equally confusing; money! is clearly NOT a "single number", and
tuple! (which we agree isn't a scalar, whatever else one may say about
it) can have more bits than one would expect of a "single number"
}}
MONEY! is a bit strange in that
Ted, have you looked at Gary Peake's http://www.owlnet.net ??
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know there are some open-source advocates on the list, so I thought I
would pass this along.
VA Linux to Unveil Service for Open Source Projects
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2104/tc
If anyone's interested, here's the correct datatype hierarchy again:
any-type
any-function
action
function
native
op
any-word
get-word
lit-word
refinement
set-word
word
bitset
char
date
error
Hi Keith,
Thanks for looking at search-text.r!
You wrote:
About the backtracking. I'm not sure how essential backtracking is, because
I think we can simulate a bunch of what backtracking does with things like
"any" and "some" rules for 'parse. I don't know all that much about
backtracking
Hi Don,
I think this is easier to understand if we keep in mind the difference
between two distinct any-word! datatypes: word! and lit-word!.
s: "some string"
type? probe first [s]
s
== word!
type? probe first ['s]
's
== lit-word!
Notice that PROBE is really handy here - it prints out the
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