Hi Romano,
thanks for your help! With Volker's and your help I now understand why
these things work this way.
Kind regards,
Arie
Romano Paolo Tenca wrote:
>Arie van Wingerden wrote:
>
>
>
>>What I find strange however is that specifying '/ is an invalid lit-word
>>but to-lit-word "/" is not.
>>This looks like a contradiction to me...
>>Any ideas why this works that way (and I am glad it does ;-) ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>The problem is that the loader (load) understands only a subset of Rebol
>value. This is a need, because load must assign a different datatype to
>the value when the string start with % or < or " or # or is in the form
>2-2-2005 o [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on.
>
>A word in rebol by itself can have ANY syntax, examples of valid rebol
>words:
>
> to-word "a%"
> to-word "3^""
>
>But load does not understand them. Other examples:
>
> to-word "2-2-1004"
> to-word "31"
> to-word "3.5e4"
> to-word "a/b/c"
>
>and also:
>
> to-word ":a"
> to-word "a:"
> to-word "'a"
> to-word "/a"
>
>Also a 0 char can be in a word:
>
> mold to-word "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ;== "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>
>A solution to the problem could be the implementation of the mold construct:
>
> #[lit-word! "/"]
>
>
>
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