Henrik and Izaka, Thanks so much. More blogs posts won't be harmful.
Regards, Emeka On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Henrik Mikael Kristensen < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Emeka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > Is [] a cousin of LISP list () (serving the purpose of procedure call and > > data structure) > > I don't know LISP, but blocks are data and code containers. You can > put any shape of data structure in them, that REBOL will load. Any > element of any datatype can go into a block. Blocks are of the block! > datatype and is a series! type, which means you can manipulate and > traverse it with series! compliant functions like NEXT, BACK, HEAD, > REMOVE, CHANGE, etc. All series! have an index and can store their > current position. > > Blocks form a huge part of the "silly putty" method of working with REBOL. > > Another very important aspect is that all series are aggressively > reused whenever possible. I call this the "copy trap", and it will bug > you, if you don't know what's going on. Read more here: > > > http://www.codeconscious.com/rebol/articles/rebol-concepts.html#Firsttrapforbeginners > > -- > Regards, > Henrik Mikael Kristensen > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > > -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
