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

[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 block.
> 

Let me get my typographical error off the table.  I (mis)typed "the"
when I intended "an".  I was trying to state that the block that is
created by translating a source text beginning with

    [a: ""  b: copy "" ;...etc...

has as its second element a reference to "an empty string" -- meaning
a string of length zero.  The same is true of its fifth element,
which also refers initially to an empty string.

I did not mean to imply -- nor do I believe -- that the two (second and
fifth elements) refer to the same string.

-jn-