Howdy, Kevin:
(REBOL also uses international date standards.)
> The language was obviously designed with this as a
> conscious choice. I'm dying to know what the reasoning
> was.
That's a Q. only Carl can really A. He's been figuring out
how REBOL should work for more than a decade and a half, so
that question is pretty deep in the philosophy. What you
say about deliberateness is true about most (but not all)
things in REBOL. Here's two of those kinds of questions I
know the "answer" to, but let's see if any one else has some
ideas:
Why is semicolon (;) the REBOL comment character?
Why are square brackets ([]) used for REBOL blocks?
What do the above reasons have in common?
> Could it be possible that this way is more natural to me
> only because I'm a native English speaker?
Holger would probably do [answer :your-question 'yes]
:-)
-jeff
