Hi..... I'm a new-guy in the REBOLution ;)
At 62, I may be too old to make a good REBOLutionary, but I suppose that advocacy is ageless. I'm a self-taught, amateur Perl and M(umps) programmer. I've also had a long, hard look at Forth. I see in REBOL what appears to be "some" Forth influence. Could I be correct? Anyway, so far I really enjoy REBOL - it's dead easy and very intuitive. I'm using /Core on an OS X Intel box running the latest Leopard patch. I don't believe /View will work on my machine. Question: The manual states: The forall advances the variable position through the series, so when it returns the variable is left at its tail: Therefore, the variable must be reset before it is used again: However. when I try it out I get: >> >> colors: [red green blue yellow orange] == [red green blue yellow orange] >> >> forall colors [print first colors] red green blue yellow orange >> >> print tail? colors false Thanks for the help and a great language! -- duke -- Duke Normandin A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
