--- Message Received --- From: Carl Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:05:24 +1200 Subject: [REBOL] Re: Understanding REBOL... Carl wrote: "I'm reasonably comfortable with the language now, (except for parsing, I= not having done enough of it for it to have stuck), but I remember with = leaning REBOL that it was best done by doing it. The "look at others' sc= ripts" kind of advice I found useless."
I agree, and likewise, except in a very narrow way, the script's of other= s a little help but not a lot. Doing is really the only way, but it still needs a conceptual introductio= n (rather than step by step), an easier VID helps a lot and that is what = I have been holding back for it in R3, and of course not being tripped up= by habits learnt by R2. Carl: "... Is a particular word data or code? Well, it can be either. A= nd if code, is it one of the default REBOL functions? Who knows? And ev= en if it is, in the context it's being used it may be a totally different= function or actually be data." You nailed it for me -- that is the point I get most confused on. Maybe a= smart editor could help, at least to some extent. I am alright to a poin= t, and then it just spludgers all together. I don't think it is a problem= with the language -- I know it is my primitive assumptions, I am seeing = the wrong things the wrong way, so I get along for a bit (it seems to get= quite natural) and then I get lost -- well that is how I found things la= st time tried -- which by the way I ended up doing things better than I e= ver expected and with not much code, but then lost how to go further. There has to be a way to jump start the process. Anyhow I will await for = R3 and take out all the stops to learn it properly from the basics up. -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
