OK, I don't know the advertisement, but as far as my knowledge of english is
exploited, I would probably interpret it as a funny compliment.
What was I trying to underline was this:
f: func [] [print "Executed"]
(((:f)))
with any number of parentheses yields the same result. Another example:
On 12/30/1999 at 12:30 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
{{Evaluating Simple Values
Simple values just evaluate to themselves. Nothing special happens. The
value is simply returned. For instance, if at the prompt you type:
}}
How about
{{
Evaluating Simple Values
Every message you send to REBOL is
On 12/29/1999 at 1:55 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
{{
Any suggestions for other candidate languages, Ted (or anybody)?
}}
In terms of a worker's language, and all things remaining equal, I'd
start with Javascript, since this will be a necessary complement to
serious Web work with REBOL for some
On 12/30/1999 at 12:31 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
{{
value reference: The relationship between a word and the value it
references.
series reference: The relationship between a series value and its
underlying data.
}}
Isn't a "series reference" just a
Actually, Javascript and REBOL might be a fine place to start. It will
probably be sometime before REBOL/Browse is both available and
practical, so until then, server-side REBOL and browser-side Javascript
are going to be necessary complements for serious Web development.
Javascript is derived
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scheme or XLisp typical modern Lisp dialects, share many features with
REBOL, good book SICP
On the subject of XLisp in particular: The last time I looked, the
most recent version of XLisp I could find on the Net was a few years
old. It appeared that David
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... I would probably interpret it as a funny compliment.
Exactly. Wheaties -- a brand of breakfast cereal that is advertised
as being very healthy -- has for many years featured photos of famous
athletes on the box. Their advertising slogan, "He's been eating his
t,
Do you like to write entertainment, utility, automation or some other type
of scripts? Let us know and maybe we can give you some suggestions on
what to try to script :-)
On 28-Dec-1999/3:03:31+2:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi guys,
I've followd the "thanks" thread with intrest, because
Hi Rebols,
I'm fighting against the idea of having to learn
Perl or Java just to get this small project:
I'm considering the possibility of having a
script on my web site that could grant permission to some users to download
files according to the rights they have.
The idea is to
IIRC, Kernighan/Ritchey's C book also had a mini-C-compiler written in C in
the back. This could be used as the basis for a JAVA to REBOL converter. :-)
On 28-Dec-1999/19:08:41-8:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi -t,
why not write a C or Java source code generator in REBOL?
You'll have to
Hi Joel
The version I have is a free package from U-Wisconsin called Xlisp-Stat. It
is a modified version of Xlisp with fast statistics, graphing functions, and
direct calls to LinPack code. It was written by Luke Tierney. You can find
it quickly at google.com with a serach on xlisp-stat.
Why don't you want them to enter their own username and password?
If that's not a critical requirement, and if you're using an Apache Web
server,you should be able to do this just by editing a permissions file in
whatever directories you want to protect. The browser would then prompt for the
This is becoming an ever increasing problem in my
use of the console as a learning environment.
s: "Evaluated"
== "Evaluated"
reduce 's
== s
print (reduce 's)
s
Don
"There are some cases in Rebol where you can't replace the parenthesized
expression by it's result and get the same"
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
On 30-Dic-99, you wrote:
l do head insert copy [] do [:f]
l Executed
l You get a different result, which looks slightly illogical to
l me.
It's not illogical. In all the other cases, DO never encountered a
value of type function! to evaluate. In this case, the
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
On 28-Dic-99, you wrote:
n ; with the copy refinement, 'e binds to the 'c in the 'f local
n context.
Nope.
block: [a b c]
== [a b c]
a: 1 b: 2
== 2
use [c] [c: 1 bind block 'c]
== [a b c]
print block
1 2 1
block2: bind/copy block 'a
== [a b c]
print block
1 2
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
On 30-Dic-99, you wrote:
n So since the console entry does an implicit load, 'C gets
n created just by asking about it?
Yup. :-)
Regards,
Gabriele.
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| Gabriele Santilli / /_/_\_\ \ Amiga Group
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
On 30-Dic-99, you wrote:
K I think it's safe to say this is too complex for general use.
K I shudder to think what would be involved trying to generate
K such a rule.
Indeed, it would have been much easier to be able to write:
t*t: ["t" some ["t " break |
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
On 30-Dic-99, you wrote:
l "There are some cases in Rebol where you can't replace the
l parenthesized expression by it's result and get the same"
This is obvious: not every value evaluates to itself. Actually, I
would say: "There are some cases in Rebol where you
My contribute about evaluation...
We know that code is, in REBOL, just a "sequence" of values. So,
code execution means evaluation of REBOL values. Every REBOL type
evaluates returning something. Here is a list of types and the
corresponding result of evaluation.
error! Values of type error!
How about now/gnt?
Since people discussed time functions earlier, here is something else to add
to your REBOL toolbox. Any SWLs or HAM radio operators out there know about
GMT/UTC. The Greenwich observatory, in England, and the Canadian Time Zone
system made world time possible, long ago. Now,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
t,
Do you like to write entertainment, utility, automation or some other type
of scripts? Let us know and maybe we can give you some suggestions on
what to try to script :-)
Howdy Bo,
Well, for starters something that looks right. my little masterpieces
are
jn wrote:
Consider the (unedited) transcript below:
print form b
b b 1 b
print b
b b b 1 b 1 b
print reduce b
b b 1 b b b 1 b 1 b
print reduce reduce b
b b 1 b b b 1 b 1 b
How did I construct the value of 'b?
b: ['b b 1 "b"]
== ['b b 1 "b"]
WARNING: BRIDGE OUT.
Proceed at your own risk.
You may drive off the road
into a VERY strange stream
(of consciousness).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not happy watching my ability to write what I mean in this case.
I have certainly felt that sentiment myself, on a number of occasions!
Thanks, Larry! I'll check it out!
-jn-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Joel
The version I have is a free package from U-Wisconsin called Xlisp-Stat. It
is a modified version of Xlisp with fast statistics, graphing functions, and
direct calls to LinPack code. It was written by Luke
Hello, writing to the list for more feedback
On 28-Dec-99, Andrew wrote:
Hi, Elliott! You wrote:
(FYI, it'll be a Shadowrun character generator)
I'm interested in having a look at this, Elliot.
Is there any chance of this, please?
OK, here's my first 2 attempted starts, I think the
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