Hi Sunanda, et al << I'm backing up Robert in his recent comment that: "Adding minimal user-friendly syntax can help a lot" >>
It can help the parser writer a lot, but not the user. :) << Part of the problem with all these "pick the url from the data stream" suggestions is that it is not trivial to do. All of the following _could_ be URLs: http://www.rebol.com www.rebol.com ftp://rebol.com/a-script.r /a-folder/a-subfolder/a-document.txt /a-folder/a-doc.htm#a-fragment /x >> As a user, I would be happy if it caught the easy ones without any intervention on my part. Other tools can do this, and url! is a native type that REBOL can identify, so there's virtually no cost there (though I haven't looked at the MDP parser so maybe there is). If I have some non-standard url, or new url formats are rolled out, then having an explicit way to mark them is a good thing to have around. For the normal case, though, why should I have to mark them up? I'm not writing the parser so I won't complain either way. :) --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
