[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > > I suggest inline-strings and blocks should be read-only,
> >
> > This might be an idea, but then you have more problems when you
> > save and then load strings... No, I don't think this would be a
> > good solution.
> >
> 
[...]
> What's your reservation with load and save? I have no idea yet.
> (and later) a write-protected saved string is changeable after
> load? or loaded blocks are then write-protected? hm. thinking..

If literal strings should be made "write-protected" (a better
approach wuold be a sort of copy-on-modify for series, this has
been discussed and was proposed mainly by Ladislav), then every
string you are loading form your data will be made write-protected
(because it is "literal").

> Is there a really great feature with the current behavior?

Simplicity.

Of course it may depend on the point of view.

> but someone will hang the wiki for fun.

Again, this is a server issue, not a language issue. I would
consider it as an addon to REBOL/Apache, but not for REBOL/Core.
If you design a wiki, then you have to take care of the security
issues... anyway, let's what does RT think about this. RT?

> > > And a warning about contexts/bind while this crashes so reliable.
> >
> > I don't know why the GC hasn't been fixed yet. This is surely a
> > major defect in REBOL currently.
> 
> maybe fixing is really very difficult.
> Or, they change code often (in c!)
> and have to track all gc-relations by hand,
> they may wish to fix it in a final step?

Actually, looking at the way Exec handles libraries, devices etc.,
I think that a GC for REBOL should not be really complex, but it
can be made quite simple. (And this is the thing about REBOL ---
everything is simple by design; so if something looks unintuitive,
it's just because simplicity is not always intuitive. :)

[...]
> Yust guessing.

Perhaps you're right.

Regards,
   Gabriele.
-- 
Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Amigan - REBOL programmer
Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila --- http://www.amyresource.it/AGI

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