David Grove wrote:
> Does your "A" stand for "A" or "Another"?
The latter. Sorry, guess I shouldn't have abbreviated it.
> The second point is that, John, you forget that Rebol actually did have
> some degree of kewlness to it
I don't think I'm forgetting that. I'm just resisting the temptation
to say "If you want Rebol, you know where to find it."
> datatypes of HTTP, FTP, MAIL, and the like. I'm not saying we should go
> that far, since OOP can simulate this for us, but only that it did have
> some kewlness of its own. Base data types don't have to be limited to
> strings and numbers...
As I understand it, those other datatypes are not fundamental, but
are pre-defined extension types, i.e. built using the language's
type extension mechanism. Part of the reason they're there is to
illustrate the language's type extension mechanism. (Or am I wrong?)
Perl6 may well have an analogous feature.
--
John Porter
