I agree.
note
ya-skip: func[n blk /r1 1 /r2] [...]
ya-skip/r1/r2 a + b + c blk lots of stuff for 1 and for 2
where we work on?
second: englishs have
skip 3 blk .
not
skip 3 blk
there is a real defined end with action at start,
destination at end and the rest in the middle. a bit
like brackets. where is the end in rebol?
and another
append append blk 1 2
works
append 1 append 2 blk
would reverse?
Volker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13-Sep-2000/7:44:50-5:00
> I think that there's a very practical pseudo-ergonomic reason why
> all of these "verbs" have their arguments in the order:
>
> take-action upon-this-thing with-these-other-things ...
>
> To use Petr's example of
>
> save %where what
>
> the overwhelmingly most likely (IMHO) case is that %where is a file
> or a word that references a file, and that the what expression can be
> arbitrarily more complex. (I.e., more likely than to have a complex
> expression that resolves to the file being written into, with a very
> simple expression for the data value.)
>
> Speaking for myself, about the most complex expression I normally use
> for the target of save or write is something resembling
>
> write to-file string-expression data-values
>
> whereas it's very common for me to have something of the form
>
> write %some-file complicated-expression-to-evaluate-...
> ...into-the-data-vaue(s)-to-be-written-to-the-file-...
> ...previously-named
>
> Given the absence of argument list delimiters, long involved
> expressions (and, hey! this is an Expression-Based language, right ;-)
> can require careful attention to layout/typography to be readable.
> This goal is enhanced by placing the shortest complete parts first.
>
> DISCLAIMERS:
>
> 1) I have no idea whether this was a deliberate choice in the design
> of REBOL. But it makes sense to me.
>
> 2) I'm well aware that our German friends (for example) a literature
> whose style long, sophisticated utterances with verbs deferred to
> the end includes have. So all of the above conjecturing very
> likely culturally influenced has been. Perhaps those of us whose
> native language American or British is a tendency toward attention
> deficit disorder have.
>
> -jn-
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > OK Elan, I don't feel myself so experienced as you surely are, but how e.g. '
>
>
> save
> > fits your rebol language philosophy?
> >
> > save %where what ...
> >
> > It was the most confusing thingy once I first came to the language. Maybe jus
>
>
> t
> > czech language mind mapping works a little bit differently :-), but imho we f
>
>
> irst
> > think of what we want to save - as to save the content is on some purpose - e
>
>
> .g.,
> > prevent loosing data, and only then we decide, where to store it, as it is ju
>
>
> st
> > secondary problem ...
> >
> > So? :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -pekr-
>
>
>
