No,  Litteral Words are to reference the word itself, not the data the word
points to.  Try this at the console:

big-block: ["lots of data"]
print big-block
print 'big-block

HTH
Ammon


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From: "Christopher Dicely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:33 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: Depth first search


> I'm pretty much a newbie, but can't you pass a
> reference using a literal word? I.e., instead
> of
>
>
> big-block: [ lots of data ]
> some-random-function big-block
>
> do something like:
>
> big-block: [ lots of data ]
> some-random-function 'big-block
>
> Chris Dicely
>
> --- Nate Haggard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am trying to make a web crawler that traverses the
> > links of a site up to a
> > depth of 3.  First a block of data is created that
> > contains all the pages to
> > visit with duplicates eliminated.  When I run this
> > program on my RedHat linux
> > 7.2 box it starts out fine, then slows to a crawl,
> > and starts using 60-80% of
> > the memory on my machine.  I think the problem is
> > that I am passing a copy of
> > the giant block to every recursive call to a
> > function.  **Isn't there any way
> > to pass a reference to a data structure that will be
> > modified instead of
> > copying it every time and then returning a new
> > structure?**
> >
> > Thanks
> > Nate
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