Hi, Gregg, IANARTE (I Am Not A REBOL Technologies Employee... ;-) but I suspect that data types are entangled with the lexical scanning performed by LOAD. IOW, it might be necessary to provide a specification for how to recognize values of a new datatype at the lexical token level, and that might not be convenient/feasible...
Just a guess! -jn- Gregg Irwin wrote: > > Joel and Gabriele, > > << > JN> - providing a means for extending the syntax within dialects so > JN> that new forms could be added at the mezzanine level, or > > MAKE DATATYPE! would be really cool. :) (Together with MAKE NATIVE! > ;) > >> > > That could be really cool, but don't datatypes have to fit into REBOL's > lexicon? The risk, of course, being that RT might have a very hard time > adding extensions themselves unless we had a specific namespace where user > datatypes lived. That pretty much bring us back to dialects, doesn't it? > > --Gregg > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
