[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-06 Thread Chaz
fwiw, RebolForum embodies both a) the sense of academic gathering together e.g. discussion forum b) the sense of excitement and adrenaline e.g. the Roman Forum - Original Message - From: Defiant Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:16 AM

[REBOL] Re: Windows registry keys

2002-08-16 Thread chaz
The number is Profile Guid, unique for each user in the world. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/sys info_1691.asp - Original Message - From: Anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: [REBOL]

[REBOL] Google supports date-range searching (requires Julian dates)

2002-05-01 Thread chaz
For REBOLs who like to Google. You'll be pleased to know that the Google API supports searching by date. http://www.researchbuzz.com/articles/2002/googledate0422.html http://www.faganfinder.com/engines/google.shtml -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[REBOL] Re: REBOL] Agentcities - was OWL

2002-03-23 Thread chaz
http://www.agentcities.org/rec/2/actf-rec-2a.pdf Am I right in assuming that you're suggesting that we collaborate on creating REBOL city and implementing the programs PingAgent and other services in REBOL - Original Message - From: Terry Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[REBOL] Re: Morpheus - the bitter thruth?

2002-03-08 Thread chaz
post it! - Original Message - From: Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Terry Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:04 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Morpheus - the bitter thruth? Hi Terry, On Wednesday, March 06, 2002, 6:44:45 PM, you wrote: What about a

[REBOL] Re: Morpheus - the bitter thruth?

2002-03-06 Thread chaz
uh, what do you suppose he meant by that? - Original Message - From: Carl Sassenrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 4:01 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Morpheus - the bitter thruth? Ah, P2P... interesting... very interesting. -Carl At 3/3/02 01:56

[REBOL] Re: Morphing (was: About CONTINUATIONS)

2002-02-28 Thread chaz
Okey dokey then, that's the second recommendation on this list for Lisp in Small Pieces. This weekend I'll go the public library and request that on Interlibrary Loan - Original Message - From: Chris Double [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:48 AM

[REBOL] Re: Morphing (was: About CONTINUATIONS)

2002-02-28 Thread chaz
yeah. vector (and dotted pair) seems similar to block define seems similar to func - Original Message - From: pat665 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:46 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Morphing (was: About CONTINUATIONS) Hi I found this site on

[REBOL] Re: Morphing (was: About CONTINUATIONS)

2002-02-26 Thread chaz
Thanks! - Original Message - From: Joel Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 5:00 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Morphing (was: About CONTINUATIONS) Hi, Chaz, I don't know if it's still in print, but a *very* good introduction to LISP, requiring

[REBOL] Re: Morphing (was: About CONTINUATIONS)

2002-02-26 Thread chaz
(was: About CONTINUATIONS) Hello Chaz, Just to add another 2 cents worth of language search about implementing Scheme or Lisp with REBOL, I submit you the following Web pointers to some available documentation about this language's dialects - These are extracted from a (Long google search

[REBOL] Morphing (was: About CONTINUATIONS)

2002-02-25 Thread chaz
Where would a developer begin, if one had an interest in implementing Scheme in REBOL? - Original Message - From: Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:14 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: About CONTINUATIONS At 10.10 25/02/02, Maarten wrote:

[REBOL] Re: About CONTINUATIONS

2002-02-25 Thread chaz
Maarten also said: You can make a continuation based mechanism in REBOL, especially with all the reflexive features you have available. This is of course not an interpreter internal (what the discussion above is), but a mini interpreter implemented on top of a very good interpreter model such as

[REBOL] Re: About CONTINUATIONS

2002-02-22 Thread chaz
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What point are you making in relation to REBOL? I apologize for being so obscure, please let me try again. There may indeed be something of value with regards to REBOL and continuations, but speaking as an observer, only, I've seen little evidence of interest in

[REBOL] Re: About CONTINUATIONS

2002-02-20 Thread chaz
On 17-Jun-2000 Brian Hawley had this to say about Continuations http://www.rebol.org/userlist/archive/205/393.html Continuations: Scheme has them (base of its execution model); REBOL dropped these too when it switched to a stack engine. Continuations don't make much sense with a stack engine -

[REBOL] Re: Tuples - Was Pair! thread

2002-02-07 Thread chaz
For example, tuples can also be used to represent colors -- for which there are a variety of useful orderings: lighter-than? darker-than? more-saturated-than? and so forth. The primitive operators ', '=, and ' have very clear and unambigous meanings when applied to scalar values. Neither pairs

[REBOL] Re: Tuples - Was Pair! thread

2002-02-07 Thread chaz
After reading another of your lame oh dear, I'm sorry if I offended anyone, how did that happen, excuse me for your misunderstanding me yet again, I realized how very sharply your posts stand out from everyone else's. Made me appreciate, once again, how very high the signal-to-noise is on this

[REBOL] Re: what's cooking?

2002-02-05 Thread chaz
Send an email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] requesting an evaluation of REBOL/IOS Express, the secure and agile communications platform for X Internet applications. - Original Message - From: Rishi Oswal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 9:55 PM

[REBOL] Re: a funny language - ETA

2002-02-04 Thread chaz
Thanks for the implementation! There is much to study in it! - Original Message - From: Frank Sievertsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:13 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: a funny language - ETA An other 8-commands language

[REBOL] a funny language - ETA

2002-02-02 Thread chaz
the lyrics to the song 99 bottles of beer on the wall - implemented in REBOL: http://www.reboltech.com/library/html/beersong.html implemented in ETA: http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/eta/pit/bottles.eta The ETA Programming Language http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/eta/doc/manual.html

[REBOL] Re: Merry Christmas

2001-12-24 Thread chaz
/Sing chaz - Original Message - From: Dr. Louis A. Turk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 5:38 PM Subject: [REBOL] Merry Christmas Dear fellow rebolutionaries, I would just like to say that I really appreciate all the help that I have received

[REBOL] Re: A REBOL challenge - The Information World

2001-12-04 Thread chaz
A site like http://www.cornerhost.com/cvs/ might be a better forum for the jousting than on this list. - Original Message - From: pat665 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:52 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: A REBOL challenge - The Information World Go

[REBOL] Re: Elegant way to reference a function?

2001-12-03 Thread chaz
This sounds like a context thing. - Original Message - From: Patrick Philipot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:44 PM Subject: [REBOL] Elegant way to reference a function? Hi all, What is the elegant way to reference a function? Let me

[REBOL] Re: A REBOL challenge - The Information World

2001-12-03 Thread chaz
Since a Tourist can carry baggage, wouldn't he be a special case of a Mail Agent who can only carry his own objects? - Original Message - From: Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 8:45 AM Subject: [REBOL] A REBOL challenge - The

[REBOL] p2p search engine (not rebol)

2001-11-14 Thread chaz
http://www.hyperbee.com/index.html So what is HyperBee? HyperBee is an attempt to crawl the web faster and cheaper than ever thought possible. As the web continues to grow, current search engines will have a more difficult time keeping their indexes up-to-date. Most search engines today index

[REBOL] Re: All what we want from REBOL: The race has started...

2001-04-02 Thread chaz
You want all of that? I'd be happy with just this http://www.groove.net chaz At 04:37 PM 4/2/01 +0100, you wrote: http://www.cryonetworks.com/uk/cryonetworks.htm Regards Sharriff Aina -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

[REBOL] Re: Mistakes I Have Made!

2001-02-24 Thread chaz
OSCAR seemingly creates acronyms recursively. I don't feel polarized by it. Positively or negatively. chaz "Always take your work seriously, but never take yourself seriously." At 06:43 AM 2/23/01 EST, you wrote: Mistakes I Have Made! Everybody, Regards recent antagonisms on

[REBOL] Re: Design by contract

2001-02-08 Thread chaz
This is cool! Seems like this information plus the stuff in the thread in "[REBOL] Writing a protocol -- a mini intro" would lead to a function that only will run when words meeting its preconditions appear in the port it is monitoring. chaz At 02:13 PM 2/7/01 +, you wrot

[REBOL] Re: Want FreesiteUK's scripts?

2001-02-06 Thread chaz
I'm interested in obtaining those scripts of yours. chaz At 12:34 PM 2/4/01 -0800, you wrote: Hi, Just wondering, I am nearly finished converting my site from Rebol to PHP, and will therefore have no need for the scripts that my site currently uses. If anyone is interested in obtaining

[REBOL] Re: Scope? Any advice would be appreciated.

2001-01-30 Thread chaz
Late and way off the tangent, here I am! At 11:22 PM 1/27/01 -0500, you wrote: I stumbled across something tonight that appears to me to be a rather another nasty paradigm shift that I have to make (or perhaps its a bug). I have reduced the problem and wrote this function to illustrate it (I

[REBOL] Re: Changing the original 'parse string

2000-12-31 Thread chaz
/part a "parse cursor" b) | a: "read/write head" b: (change/part a "parse cursor" b) | a: "left-most bit of the first argument" b: (change/part a "beginning of the first word" b) | skip ] ] parse text rule save %turing.html text chaz At 07:12

[REBOL] Re: Rebol vs Ruby

2000-12-20 Thread chaz
we need to use the singular or plural form. if [to-integer size 0][result: rejoin [result size " " either [size = 1][sing][plur]] " "] time: time // unit ] print result chaz At 01:25 PM 12/19/00 -0800, you wrote: Hi Galt, Ruby predates REBOL by a year or two (I've been on th

[REBOL] Re: Re(2): 'parse trick and 'unset

2000-12-17 Thread chaz
At 03:34 AM 12/17/00 +1100, you wrote: Change 'id, so that the full code is: line1: "Julie1234" line2: "Jules1234ffg5678" digits: charset "0123456789" id: ["" 3 4 digits ""] rule: [a: some [id | [skip b:]] (print copy/part a b)] parse line1 rule parse line2 rule Why? Because in 'line2 we

[REBOL] Re: REBOL in PHP

2000-12-05 Thread chaz
Haven't seen you on the list for a while! Glad to have you back! chaz At 10:52 AM 12/5/00 -0500, you wrote: Quick tip: In my book REBOL FOR DUMMIES (order it at http://rebolpress.com), I show how PHP code embeds in REBOL scripts. Ah, but what if you want to call a REBOL script from within PHP

[REBOL] Re: web site authentication

2000-12-01 Thread chaz
Congratulations! chaz At 05:41 PM 12/2/00 +1300, you wrote: On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:18:21 -0800 "Larry Palmiter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The standard full URL for http and ftp is (using http as an example) http://user-name:password@domain:port-number/path Hi Larry, I trie

[REBOL] Re: Little parsing problem just got bigger

2000-11-21 Thread chaz
Except for the fact that that code contains $'s, []'s, ()'s, and {}'s, I'd say put all of ikoncode into a block and parse the whole block. Something like substituteblock: copy [] parse ikoncode [ any [thru "^$post =~ s/" original to "/" thru "/" copy substitute to "/"] (

[REBOL] Re: Help required for a little parsing problem

2000-11-19 Thread chaz
ace everything between 'url_start and 'url_end with a new string composed of three strings and two instances of the value of the word 'href ('compose concatenates and evaluates) Please email me off-list with the Perl equivalent. chaz P.S. Thanks to Gabriele for his Expression Evaluator. At 04:41 P

[REBOL] $uggestion to REBOL guru$

2000-11-10 Thread chaz
Is it fair for the REBOL community to wait until you're sick or between projects for us to see more of your scripts? Your "day jobs " are cutting into your REBOL time. Would money help? May I suggest that you hold your future scripts hostage. Announce scripts you would like to release, set a

[REBOL] Re: you'll think I'm crazy, but...

2000-10-29 Thread chaz
follow the usage guide, I hope you won't trip over too many. Here's his response to my suggestion that he post it here. ~~~~ on Sat, 28 Oct 2000, chaz wrote: This is great! Makes one wonder what

[REBOL] Question: Move the REBOL List? Re:

2000-10-12 Thread chaz
When do we start? At 06:23 PM 10/10/00 -0700, you wrote: Dear REBOL list readers: It's great to have so much activity happening with REBOL these days. Unfortunately, our servers are overloading. We're starting to have gigabyte days. While it is good to have all this activity, it is making

[REBOL] learning to parse Re:(4)

2000-10-08 Thread chaz
nounphrase: [ "Andrew" ] predphrase: [ "Rules!" ] string: "Andrew Rules!" parse string [nounphrase predphrase] chaz REBOL[] print enbase/64 #{26EB2D027A2D85EAFE44404E2FE1DA7247AB59A9ED4E805E} ask [] At 02:55 AM 10/7/00 -0800, you wrote:

[REBOL] 'Help extension v1.0 Re:

2000-10-08 Thread chaz
This is wonderful! Now it's a part of my user.r! help system OBJECT: system WORDS: build -- (Type: date) components -- (Type: block) license-- (Type: string) product-- (Type: word) stats -- (Type: native) version-- (Type: tuple) SUB-OBJECTS:

[REBOL] learning to parse

2000-10-07 Thread chaz
Rebol [] nounphrase: [ "Americans" | "Australians" | "Dutch" | "Germans" | "REBOLs" ] predphrase: [ "understand" | "rule" | "script" | "travel" | ] string: "REBOLs rule" parse string [nounphrase predphrase] chaz REBOL[] print enbase/64 #{26EB2D027A2D85EAFE44404E2FE1DA7247AB} ask []

[REBOL] learning to parse Re:

2000-10-07 Thread chaz
nominal] predphrase: [ "understand" | "rule" | "script" | "travel" | ] string: "Intelligent REBOLs understand" parse string [nounphrase predphrase] chaz REBOL[] print enbase/64 #{26EB2D027A2D85EAFE44404E2FE1DA7247AB} ask []

[REBOL] Digest? Re:

2000-10-01 Thread chaz
you can unsubsribe :) and use the REBOL/Core archive http://www.REBOL.org/userlist/html/index.html chaz REBOL[] print enbase/64 #{26EB2D027A2D85EAFE44404E2FE1DA7247AB} ask [] At 11:07 PM 9/30/00 -0400, you wrote: I just subbed to this list yesterday and its got a little more traffic

[REBOL] Beer time... Re:

2000-10-01 Thread chaz
You deserve it! At 06:05 PM 9/30/00 -0700, you wrote: View is nearly complete with this release. There is still some work to do on edit text, and a general cleanup sweep needs to happen soon. However, I'm quite happy with where it is today. Packs a lot of punch for 360K. The next big focus

[REBOL] Working with binary data Re:(2)

2000-09-26 Thread chaz
Great thread! Binary is cool! chaz REBOL[] print enbase/64 #{26EB2D027A2D85EAFE44404E2FE1DA7247AB} ask [] At 06:00 PM 9/26/00 -0800, you wrote: Hi Jeff: Try playing with the following code: ;=== variable

[REBOL] Fun with Win32

2000-08-28 Thread chaz
Run rebmsgbox.exe Then run rebmsgbox.r Then run rebmsgbox.exe again. rebmsgbox.exe REBOL [ Title: "REBOL Message Box" Author: "chaz" Date: 28-Aug-2000 File: %rebmsgbox.r Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purpose: { Creates a Win32 message box wi

[REBOL] Is there a rebol email client app yet? Re:

2000-08-20 Thread chaz
http://www.egroups.com/group/Rebmail At 10:07 PM 8/19/00 +1000, you wrote: I thought there was a Rebol email client app project underway. I was wondering if anyone knows if it has produced something. Brett. -- my-rebol-stuff == http://www.zipworld.com.au/~bhandley/rebol

[REBOL] interesting article - Why compilers are doomed

2000-08-19 Thread chaz
By Jean-Claude Wippler, creator of MetaKit, "an efficient embedded database library with a small footprint" http://www.equi4.com/jcw/wiki.cgi/56.html

[REBOL] REBOL the Official Guide Re:(3)

2000-08-08 Thread chaz
for manifesting your inner REBOLs! chaz "Rule One of surviving is: Figure out what your brain will do and use that to get around what your brain won't do. This is pleasanter than hitting your head against the wall in sheer frustration and much more useful than swearing" - Peaches Dann At 06

[REBOL] grab your old user.r and rebol.r and go go go!

2000-06-24 Thread chaz
grab your old user.r and rebol.r and go go go!

[REBOL] Andrew, you beast! - GC too tidy? Re:(7)

2000-06-20 Thread chaz
This is the best comparison of Rebol to another language! Will it get turned into a webpage, so it can be put on the www.rebol.org links page? JB, you may not be familiar with REBOL history, but the 1.x versions of REBOL were based on Scheme semantics. REBOL was much slower back then, and had a

[REBOL] Andrew, you beast! - GC too tidy? Re:(4)

2000-06-16 Thread chaz
At 07:34 AM 6/16/00 +0200, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought most of the "philosophical" questions / discussions here about i.e. object lifecycle, scope, bindings, etc. would be simply, formally, and workably solved if Rebol had a true lexical scoping model. As it

[REBOL] REBOL and the unix shell Re:(4)

2000-06-15 Thread chaz
Here's a prototype that Ted Husted was working on at one time. I wonder what happened. http://husted.com/rebol-dev/home.html At 01:52 PM 6/14/00 -0500, you wrote: Hey, combine these articles with the script library, online documentation, news headlines, links, discussion board, a REBOL store

[REBOL] rebol for dummies Re:(2)

2000-06-11 Thread chaz
Will binaries for all 37 platforms be available on the CD? At 01:17 PM 6/10/00 -0400, you wrote: Well, it looks like REBOL is finally going to hit the big time. There is going to be a "Dummies" book out in September. 8-) There is? Well, since the cat is out of the house so to speak, yes

[REBOL] More stupid Questions Re:

2000-06-10 Thread chaz
What platform are you running on, and what version do you get when you type about in the console? REBOL [ ... ] Text: read %File.asc a: now Text: join Text a print Text write %NewFile.asc Text At 06:56 AM 6/10/00 +0200, you wrote: If I have

[REBOL] Getting an URL from a form Re:(3)

2000-06-08 Thread chaz
Maybe this will help http://www.rebol.cz/~rebol/cgi/ At 09:44 AM 6/8/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi, uhm, I'll try to explain what I want to do. The site I'm looking at is a company that sell DVD movies. They have a function to search for movies. I want to be able to make that search, not by going to

[REBOL] My 2 cent contribution Re:

2000-05-28 Thread chaz
we could call it iloveyou.r that's evil. At 11:14 AM 5/28/00 -0500, you wrote: Run it all on the Rebol server.r script from the personal computer. (it has been done allready but its in pieces all over the place)Make sure you put one of those

[REBOL] Rebol Tutorial on TUCOWS

2000-05-19 Thread chaz
http://htmlstuff.tucows.com/programmer/reboltut/rbastut1.html

[REBOL] Shareware Industry Awards 2000, People's Choice Award

2000-05-19 Thread chaz
Who do you love, baby? http://www.siafvoting.com/sic2000/index.cfm Best Overall Utility : Best Application : Best Graphics Program or Utility : Best Sound Program or Utility : Best Vertical Market Program or Utility : Best Business Application or Utility : Best Educational

[REBOL] Calling external functions Re:(3)

2000-05-18 Thread chaz
rebol's 'do is like c's '#include Although you can put many functions into one .r file, you can put one function in each .r file. Go to the script archive at http://www.rebol.org for examples of this. Although I haven't done so, or thought of a good reason to do so, I could write .h file for

[REBOL] external operating system calls Re:

2000-05-05 Thread chaz
At 04:25 PM 5/1/00 -0500, you wrote: How can you run command line operating system calls in Unix or Windows from a Rebol script? thanks, Steve Can't do it with Rebol/Core. You'd need Rebol/Command, which is available to Beta testers. Propose a project that meets Carl's 5 requirements (below),

[REBOL] REBOL and e-commerce Re:

2000-04-27 Thread chaz
I like your writing style! Have you considered writing a REBOL book? Of course, it would be uncivil of me to just brag about the neat ap I wrote without telling you HOW it works. It's pretty trival; the real headache is getting the HTML commands to format right--nothing to do with the REBOL

[REBOL] Rebol/Command Sherman Re:(3)

2000-04-26 Thread chaz
Joe Marshall was working on a compiler based on Rebol 1.0 (the current version is 2.2.0.3.1) I don't know what became of it. http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000VTm At 09:28 AM 4/26/00 +0100, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # 2 Does

[REBOL] [REBOL] System object documentation Re:

2000-04-10 Thread chaz
use Bo's browse-system.r script from http://www.rebol.org/utility/index.html either download it, or type these two commands in a Rebol window browse: read http://www.rebol.org/utility/browse-system.r do browse At 02:36 PM 4/9/00 -0800, you wrote: I can't seem to find documentation on the

[REBOL] [REBOL]Formatting variables in strings Re:(3)

2000-04-04 Thread chaz
Also print ["the numbers are:" test "and" test + 1] print ["the numbers are:" test "and" add test 1] At 11:19 AM 4/3/00 -0800, you wrote: Thanks: That did it! tj At 10:12 AM 4/3/00 -0800, you wrote: print reform ["the numbers are:" test "and" (test + 1)]

[REBOL] [REBOL]Advice in using global values Re:

2000-04-04 Thread chaz
This time to the right list! At 02:49 PM 4/2/00 -0800, you wrote: How do I make a value global? That is, so that it can be "seen" by any code in a file, include user-define functions? I would also welcome advice as to the pro and cons of using globals, as well as when best to use them, and what