Hi Jake
Nice to hear from others with interest in symbolic programming in REBOL. I
believe there are a few of us on the list.
I think most of the things that have been presented on this list concerning
symbolic and functional programming in REBOL and issues with scoping and
context have been discovered through a lot of experimentation and guesswork
as opposed to "intuitive grasp" (speaking for myself of course) and through
interchanges with others on this list. Some of the things you have seen
referenced in the last few weeks were the result of many iterations
involving several people over a period of several weeks. Hopefully, more
complete documentation of REBOL from the creators is on the way. That would
help a lot.
BTW If you figure out any neat ways to do some of these symbolic things,
please let us know :-)
-Larry
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > BTW When I was first learning REBOL last fall I tried programming many
of
> > the samples from the "Wizard Book" by Sussman et. al.. I found that it
was
> > not really possible to write programs with the same behavior as the
Scheme
> > examples, possibly because of the lack of dynamic binding in REBOL.
> > Presumably in REBOL 1.x this was possible.
>
> I was planning do to exactly the same thing when I get a chance! It
> looks like some of the messages that have been posted to this list over
> the past few weeks should be very helpful. I feel bad because, while I
> can realize that there is a lot of subtle stuff going on with issues
> like when variables are bound, I don't seem to have the intuitive grasp
> of how things work that other people on this list do.. or rather, I have
> to work a little bit harder to figure out what's going on.. and an
> exercise like porting the samples from the Wizard Book should bring
> things into a closer focus for me.
>
> -Jake
