[REBOL] Re: CORE 2.5.2 Bugs/Enhancements

2002-05-12 Thread Ladislav Mecir
The APPEND function should be enhanced to allow the same types of arguments/refinements as INSERT does. append: function [ {Appends a value to the tail of a series and returns the series.} [catch] series [series! port! bitset!] Series at point to insert value [any-type!] The

[REBOL] Re: Linguistic influences

2002-05-12 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Volker and Joel, 1) I didn't want to criticize the ineffectivity of the algorithm. I would rather say, that what matters to me may be a naturality of the algorithm. 2) Joel's examples as well as Volker's look to me as top down writing style, while my attempt uses a bottom up approach. I am

[REBOL] Re: Graph Drawing /View Performance

2002-05-12 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Etienne, On Sunday, May 12, 2002, 3:14:49 AM, you wrote: EA The transparency is hard to understand without doc. The first difference Do you have Holger's post about this? I think it explained almost all that is needed, but maybe I'm wrong. http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m15951.html

[REBOL] RT feedback

2002-05-12 Thread pat665
Hi rebollers Just curious if someone gets any feedback from RT feedback about the beta 2.5.2. In the past, they used to send a ticket for acknowledgment. I have reported 4 problems and received nothing. It is hard to know if they got them or not. Since I am using 2.5.2, things are not easy : -

[REBOL] Re: Graph Drawing /View Performance

2002-05-12 Thread pat665
Hi Etienne EA I thought this View version was a beta release ... Yes it is but it seems logical that the changes are there forever and not to be removed. Therefore programs have to be adapted. As I said previously, I am using a simplified version of your aqua-blue skin. Mainly just buttons,

[REBOL] Re: Collation sequence - proper and efficient sorting of national accented chars?

2002-05-12 Thread G. Scott Jones
From: Geza Lakner MD Hello REBOLers, Is there a way to set a national collation sequence for string SORTing in the SYSTEM object? Defining a per character comparator for SORT/COMPARE would be an overkill in terms of speed and efficacy. Thus, is there a way to use the native SORT

[REBOL] Re: Linguistic influences

2002-05-12 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Ladislav, Ladislav Mecir wrote: 1) I didn't want to criticize the ineffectivity of the algorithm. I would rather say, that what matters to me may be a naturality of the algorithm. FWIW, the algorithm wasn't the point of my note. I really wish I had chosen a different example. The

[REBOL] Re: make-doc-pro: Version 1.0.3 beta available

2002-05-12 Thread pat665
Hi Robert, I tested MDP 1.03 with Rebol 2.5.2. I noticed that HTML code, either expressed directly or in a rebol source (in a print statement for example) are interpreted. This could be usefull sometimes, but in my case it destroys the document. This is a little text that I have used for

[REBOL] Re: Help me Obi REB Kenobi! You're my only hope!

2002-05-12 Thread Ed Dana
Joel Neely wrote: Hi, Ed, You've already received several good suggestions. Yes, I have. Thank you all for your good advice. I bow my head in shame; I shall not bother this list again. ... At least, not until the next time I screw up. :) -- Sincerely, | Ed Dana| This

[REBOL] make-doc-pro: Version 1.0.3 beta updated

2002-05-12 Thread Robert M. Muench
Have a look at my Rebsite. What changed: - Table support added \table line 1 cell 1 | cell 2 | cell 3 || line 2 cell 1 | cell 2 | cell 3 /table - some minor bug-fixes Robert -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without

[REBOL] Re: make-doc-pro: Version 1.0.3 beta available

2002-05-12 Thread Robert M. Muench
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of pat665 Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Re: make-doc-pro: Version 1.0.3 beta available I tested MDP 1.03 with Rebol 2.5.2. I noticed that HTML code, either

[REBOL] Re: Collation sequence - proper and efficient sorting ofnational accented chars?

2002-05-12 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello G., Let me know if you have any questions. Good luck. Huhh, pretty scary task NOT to be a REBOLer Englishman ;-) I will try some mapping - it seems the most obvious way to me. Besides I would like to sort first names: as a loose (lousy, lazy etc ;-) ) solution it would suffice to map the

[REBOL] Re: Linguistic influences

2002-05-12 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi all, for me the best mode to do that in Rebol is to use a parse rule: result: copy [] r: [into r | set x skip (insert tail result x)] parse/all serie [some r] It is the more simple and the more fast (i think). But the point is that it also the more easy to understand, if one has a

[REBOL] Re: Core 2.5.2 - Less aggressive evaluation - howto evaluate?

2002-05-12 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Ammon, Ammon Johnson wrote: I just tried that on Command: a: context[ b: context[ c: 1]] f: func ['word] [print word] f a/b/c 1 I don't know if it is a problem with Core that is non-existant in Command. As the subject was meant to express, we are talking about a change in the

[REBOL] Re: Help me Obi REB Kenobi! You're my only hope!

2002-05-12 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Ed, Ed Dana wrote: I bow my head in shame; I shall not bother this list again. But please do! It's how most of us learned REBOL to begin with. At least, not until the next time I screw up. :) That happens with me about every 30 milliseconds! See you soon! ;-) -jn- -- ;

[REBOL] Re: Help me Obi REB Kenobi! You're my only hope!

2002-05-12 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, again, Ed, Ed Dana wrote: A couple quick follow-up questions, for my edification. :) Why can literals be surrounded by or {}. Is there a difference in how REBOL executes these strings? Just curious about the reason for this. It's very handy to have multiple string delimiters,

[REBOL] Re: Text Editors?

2002-05-12 Thread Izkata
Hello? Notepad IS a text editor. I'm looking for a REBOL type of Microsoft Word. Daniel S. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Hungarian Alphabet Sort (was Re: Collation sequence - proper and efficient sorting of national accented chars?)

2002-05-12 Thread G. Scott Jones
Hi, Geza, The Czech sorter was alpha, and never moved beyond to a more generic solution due to apparent lack of general interest and time. I was trying to remember how I had mapped the character, and one thing led to another, and I suddenly had a Hungarian Alphabet sorter! Strange how that

[REBOL] Re: Linguistic influences

2002-05-12 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Romano, I'm gonna need some help with that one! Romano Paolo Tenca wrote: result: copy [] r: [into r | set x skip (insert tail result x)] parse/all serie [some r] It is the more simple and the more fast (i think). But is it correct? Here's what happened when I tried to use the

[REBOL] Re: Help me Obi REB Kenobi! You're my only hope!

2002-05-12 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Ed, On Sunday, May 12, 2002, 6:02:18 PM, you wrote: ED Why can literals be surrounded by or {}. Is there a difference in how ED REBOL executes these strings? {You can write multiline strings this way} while this needs to end in one line {also, you can put a inside here} Regards,

[REBOL] Re: Linguistic influences

2002-05-12 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Romano, On Sunday, May 12, 2002, 4:36:52 PM, you wrote: RPT I asked for a /tail refinement in insert. It should be also possible to create RPT alias of refined words. What do you mean? RPT About Change, I feel the need of a change/part which changes only a fixed RPT length of the

[REBOL] Re: Hungarian Alphabet Sort (was Re: Collation sequence -proper and efficient sorting of national accented chars?)

2002-05-12 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Scott, Thanx, cute solution! Though my critical comments :-) : The right order for Hungarian vowels: actually the diaresis characters come first and then the double acute ones (only o and u have double accents in the Hungarian alphabet): oOóÓöÖõÕ uUúÚüÜûÛ Unfortunately the

[REBOL] Re: Linguistic influences

2002-05-12 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Gabriele RPT I asked for a /tail refinement in insert. It should be also possible to create RPT alias of refined words. What do you mean? head insert/tail ab c ==abc alias my-append insert/tail head my-append ab c ==abc RPT About Change, I feel the need of a change/part which

[REBOL] Re: Linguistic influences

2002-05-12 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Joel, result: copy [] r: [into r | set x skip (insert tail result x)] parse/all serie [some r] It is the more simple and the more fast (i think). But is it correct? Here's what happened when I tried to use the expressions copied from your email: As you told us, it is not the

[REBOL] Rebol Jabber client?

2002-05-12 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Has anyone used REBOL with jabber ? thanks ./Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Text Editors?

2002-05-12 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Hi Daniel I don't really understand what you mean by REBOL type of Microsoft Word. What do you want it to do? Please try to explain again .. Do you mean you want a sophisticated word processor like MSWord, with stylesheets, WYSIWYG font control, graphics embedding etc. But you want one which

[REBOL] Re: Hungarian Alphabet Sort (was Re: Collation sequence - proper and efficient sorting of national accented chars?)

2002-05-12 Thread G. Scott Jones
From: Geza Lakner MD snip The right order for Hungarian vowels: actually the diaresis characters come first and then the double acute ones (only o and u have double accents in the Hungarian alphabet): oOóÓöÖõÕ uUúÚüÜûÛ This was easy to fix. Unfortunately the case-insensitiveness does not

[REBOL] Re: make-doc-pro: Version 1.0.3 beta updated

2002-05-12 Thread Luis Rodríguez Jurado
Hi Robert Where I can find the makedocpro.txt file ? Thanks ! Luis! -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: RT feedback

2002-05-12 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Patrick, Just curious if someone gets any feedback from RT feedback about the beta 2.5.2. I don't know if the ticketing process was totally automated or not. If so, they may have just taken it down. If not, they may be busy. In any case, I wouldn't worry. --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from

[REBOL] Re: Text Editors?

2002-05-12 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Daniel, Hello? Notepad IS a text editor. I'm looking for a REBOL type of Microsoft Word. What you're probably after is a programmer's editor for REBOL, like CodeWright, VIM, SlickEdit, etc. A word processor generally makes for a very bad programmer's editor. Many of the programmer's

[REBOL] Re: Where is the eval1 server?

2002-05-12 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi John, Just trying to show someone /link as a comparative technology to Java Web Start but the eval1 server appears to be off-line. Any ideas of when it will be back up? Might be best to contact RT directly about that. I don't know what their policy is on discussing IOS servers on the ML.

[REBOL] Re: Help me Obi REB Kenobi! You're my only hope!

2002-05-12 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hey Ed! Keep asking questions. I always learn something, whether it's me or someone else asking the questions. :) --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Where is the eval1 server?

2002-05-12 Thread john_kenyon
Just ran the test settings button and recieived the folowing extra info - 1. DNS lookup complete 2. Attempting server connection 3. Server connection complete 4. Invalid HTTP response Cheers, John Subject: Where is the eval1 server? Hi, Just trying to show someone /link as a comparative

[REBOL] Re: Periods as parts of rebol words?

2002-05-12 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Joel, I think it was Alan Perlis who said Syntactical sugar causes cancer of the semicolon! I *have* to file that one away! That's great. I don't even regard it as an ideal. The lack of professionalism in the programming field is one of the major factors behind the so-called software