[REBOL] How to get interval in tenth of sec ? Re:

2000-10-18 Thread larry
o do" list. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 6:46 AM Subject: [REBOL] How to get interval in tenth of sec ? > > Hi list: > > In the application i'm now developping, I need a mean t

[REBOL] Efficient binary functions Re:

2000-10-10 Thread larry
Hi Phil Don't know about most efficient, but this is probably close: foreach item reduce [v2 v3][append v1 item] HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:48 PM Subject: [REBOL] Efficient binary func

[REBOL] generalities of addresses and values... Re:

2000-10-09 Thread larry
t; >> x ;x is a word local to the function f ** Script Error: x has no value. ** Where: x Notice that modifying the block or string referenced by the local variable x, also changes the original global value. To prevent that you would have to use COPY to create a n

[REBOL] Transpose Re:

2000-10-06 Thread larry
ck mt j i pick pick m i j ] ] mt ] Enjoy -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 2:11 AM Subject: [REBOL] Transpose > Joel wrote: > > Finally, I'd considered handling the structure

[REBOL] debug help Re:

2000-10-06 Thread larry
eedback or directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a workaround, you could try adding a message using the summary keyword. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 1:56 PM Subject: [REBOL] debug help > Cou

[REBOL] Bug! - 'second on object containing ONE hash! has TWO hash! !! Re:(2)

2000-10-05 Thread larry
'self. I would be interested in your comments on the puzzle I gave in my own response to Andrew, if it ever appears on the list. See you -Larry > Eric >

[REBOL] Bug! - 'second on object containing ONE hash! has TWO hash! !! Re:

2000-10-05 Thread larry
which cannot be saved and loaded. This may be a bug in load. Only RT knows what lurks in the heart of REBOL. ;-) Cheers -Larry PS You can make a recursive block which cannot be saved and loaded. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

[REBOL] List! series [Was: blank] Re:(2)

2000-10-04 Thread larry
functions work differently as well, I would suggest reading the manual. Cheers -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 4:04 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: List! series [Was: blank] I followed Elan's

[REBOL] Problem with try [ open/direct/binary tcp://... ] Re:(9)

2000-10-03 Thread larry
inary 100 == #{313030} >> to-binary to-string #{313030} == #{313030} >> to-string #{313030} == "100" In other words, to-binary and to-string are mutually inverse operations. They just show different ways of looking at the same underlying byte sequence. Cheers -Larry

[REBOL] Problem with try [ open/direct/binary tcp://... ] Re:(7)

2000-10-02 Thread larry
"join" two binary values. >> append a b == #{0123456789} >> Cheers -Larry You wrote: > I'm finding that REBOL's a pretty nice tool to get close to the protocol. > Out of curiosity, how do you reverse byte order, for things like the length > header? And I

[REBOL] System/? Re:(2)

2000-09-30 Thread larry
.3.1 produces a file of 656 kB. That is for view without the demo-object loaded (i.e., I set start-view?: off in the user.r file), if the demo-object is loaded (default start-up) there is an out of memory error. Cheers -Larry

[REBOL] Antwort: Compiler for Rebol ? Re:(16)

2000-09-28 Thread larry
b"][print k] [print k [] >> f a b 1 >> Cheers -Larry

[REBOL] Bug? Rebol/View not able to read nbci site? Re:

2000-09-26 Thread larry
Hi Andrew I just tried the second Andrew's icon for your rebsite, the one on the right in the sites window, and it seems to work OK, although the first one has the same problems as before. Wondering what made the difference? Cheers -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL P

[REBOL] Rebcam doesn't work ... Re:(2)

2000-09-25 Thread larry
Hi Jochen, Petr, all The reb-cam.r script has already been fixed by AllenK, the author. It is just a question of getting the updated version on the RT rebsite. Cheers -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 25

[REBOL] HTTP Authentication Re:(3)

2000-09-20 Thread larry
Hi Brett I don't have a setup to use this for http, but I often use it with ftp. AFAIK this is the standard URL format for accessing a password protected http site. You might need to specify a path/page. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PR

[REBOL] HTTP Authentication Re:

2000-09-20 Thread larry
Hi Brett You can connect this way: print read http://usrname:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 6:15 PM Subject: [REBOL] HTTP Authentication > When I point

[REBOL] Essay on Associative Data Stores Re:(3)

2000-09-19 Thread larry
to hash numbers as well, but no schedule on that. Cheers -Larry PS Joel, I have really enjoyed your recent essays and benchmarks. -excerpt from original message > > > > BTW, using a hash! for the "keys" array would probably be a better > > idea than just using

[REBOL] A bug in sorting on dates/times? Re:

2000-09-17 Thread larry
gt;> sort dates == [10-Sep-2000/23:24:02-5:00 10-Sep-2000/23:24:13-5:00] >> dates == [10-Sep-2000/23:24:02-5:00 10-Sep-2000/23:24:13-5:00] >> Also the same with latest experimental builds of Core and Command. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[REBOL] serializing? Re:(2)

2000-09-14 Thread larry
large file (about half a megabyte) The file contains indicators of recursive blocks/objects i.e. [...]. So it will not load back in a valid form. >> layo2: load %layo.sav >> view layo2 ;no red box I have reported this to feedback, but had no response so far. -Larry - Origin

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(7)

2000-09-10 Thread larry
to put the byte size of files in the icon entries? Cheers -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 6:34 PM Subject: [REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(6) > So, why don't you guys just use the

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(5)

2000-09-10 Thread larry
rsity http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/drscheme/. It is free and rather small (just a few MB) and supports threads, GUI programming, and tcp. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 4:20 PM Subject: [RE

[REBOL] Compression And Encryption Re:

2000-09-10 Thread larry
Try http://www.rebol.com/library/html/encrypt.html You will also find some scripts that deal with using the built-in compress and decompress functions. HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 4:0

[REBOL] Fixes View: 0.10.29 Re:(2)

2000-09-04 Thread larry
xt12 with [size: none] inp: field 240x24 ] Then it will work. HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 1:19 PM Subject: [REBOL] Fixes View: 0.10.29 Re: > I just ran a few scripts checking the

[REBOL] problems with local vars??? Re:(6)

2000-08-18 Thread larry
usins of Rebol. REBOL blocks and more generally series combine the access and modification features of Scheme lists (head, tail, next, first) and Scheme vectors (pick, poke, at). Most of the above is just my current best guess about how function creation works. Cheers -Larry snip

[REBOL] protect-system caveat Re:

2000-08-18 Thread larry
: 5 >> BTW You can use 'source to look at the code for both 'help and 'protect-system. If you do >>source protect-system before doing 'protect-system, it does not cause this problem, which is one reason I think the bug is in 'help. HTH -Larry - O

[REBOL] returning an object from a function, sort of Re:

2000-08-17 Thread larry
obe logo1 make object! [ name: 'logo1 ] >> logo1/name == logo1 >> type? logo1/name == word! HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:36 AM Subject: [REBOL] returning an object from

[REBOL] word Re:(3)

2000-08-14 Thread larry
Hi Fantam You wrote: > What a wonderful explanation. Thank you for the insight, Larry. > You are welcome! I realized after my post that there is another important point about 'bind and contexts which I failed to mention. I showed you how to bind the words in the code block t

[REBOL] problems with series of objects Re:

2000-08-13 Thread larry
ie to contain the actual objects, you can do this my-serie: reduce [book1 book2] then your original access code works this-book: first my-serie print this-book/info HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 200

[REBOL] word Re:

2000-08-13 Thread larry
ction's local context. In such a case, using bind as above will not give the desired effect. The thing to remember is that words have values only within a context, and the same word may have different values in different contexts. HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PRO

[REBOL] what if you squish one of your words? Re:

2000-08-11 Thread larry
I use system-protect although some experts feel they know all the system/words well enough to make it unnecessary. With the new versions of Core, View, and Command appearing frequently it is getting harder to keep track mentally. HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTEC

[REBOL] Finding the previous value in a string Re:(3)

2000-08-11 Thread larry
ny whitespace (including linefeed, etc), you can use >> parse string none == ["This" "is" "a" "string" "with" "some" "words"] which in this case gives the same result as parse/all string " " -Larry - Origi

[REBOL] contexts and words Re:

2000-08-11 Thread larry
ween paths and blocks. >> to-block :p == [a b c] >> to-path to-block :p == a/b/c HTH -Larry

[REBOL] Getting Rebol Word List Re:(6)

2000-08-07 Thread larry
lp function! etc to get a list of the currently defined values of that type. Other pseudotypes are series, any-block, and any-string. This topic is discussed (to some extent) in the docs. Elan's book provides more info. HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[REBOL] Depth of recursion stack

2000-08-06 Thread larry
Comments? Other examples? -Larry

[REBOL] reverse Re:

2000-08-02 Thread larry
Hi Boleslav Try >> head reverse "abcd" == "dcba" Reverse leaves the current pointer at the tail of the reversed block. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 11:16 PM Subject

[REBOL] For those new to list and notetab-gateway users. Re:

2000-08-02 Thread larry
Hi Brett Nice work! -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:24 PM Subject: [REBOL] For those new to list and notetab-gateway users. > Hi, > > 1) I've created a web page of a collecti

[REBOL] converting I.P. Addresses to integer Re:(2)

2000-08-01 Thread larry
Thanks Eric Excellent. Also faster. I thought about changing to Horner's method (what you used) but I was too tired. BTW, the local 'z is now superfluous. Cheers -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Larry Palmiter &l

[REBOL] converting I.P. Addresses to integer Re:

2000-07-31 Thread larry
Hi Tim >> tup-to-num 207.69.132.8 == 3477439496 HTH -Larry ---code--- REBOL [ Title: "Convert IP to number" Author: "Larry Palmiter" Date: 31-Jul-2000 File: %tup-to-num.r Comment: { Must be decimal because REBOL does not support 32 bit un

[REBOL] Context Stuff Re:

2000-07-31 Thread larry
texts, but the nature of series literals in REBOL. If you want an empty string each time the function f is entered, replace str: "" with str: copy "" ;creates a new empty string each time HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[

[REBOL] Truncation Re:

2000-07-31 Thread larry
Hi Paul Well for numbers of absolute magnitude less than 2,147,483,647 (i.e., within the range of the integer datatype) you can do this: >> to-integer 47.2393 == 47 HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July

[REBOL] A datatype puzzle

2000-07-30 Thread larry
0-Jul-2000/17:06:27-7:00 >> x: 1234 == 1234 >> get to-word first blk == 1234 >> blk == [] Now the puzzle part. How did I create the block? Is there a bug here somewhere? Cheers -Larry Hint: I only used datatypes, no user functions or objects were created.

[REBOL] REBOL SCOPING / CONTEXT EXPLANATIONS Re:(4)

2000-07-27 Thread larry
n access the same data in the anonymous object without using the encapsulated get-it func. Of course, Carl's example was very contrived -- how else could one short script have 15 uses (one hidden in 'b2) of the word 'b. :-) BTW The problem with recycle which I posted can be avoided by n

[REBOL] Words, Bindings and Contexts. (7) Re:

2000-07-26 Thread larry
d be a more complete model of func. Thank you again for sharing this excellent material. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:37 PM Subject: [REBOL] Words, Bindings and Contexts. (7) > I see, that the

[REBOL] Bug in 'use? Re:(11)

2000-07-25 Thread larry
it is what should have been the output from Gabriele's example. Should it have been [2 2 2]? More confused than ever :-( -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:21 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Bug in

[REBOL] REBOL SCOPING / CONTEXT EXPLANATIONS Re:(3)

2000-07-20 Thread larry
ash when doing print print var Wondering if there is a simple explanation for this? Seems like something about the context referencing is destroyed by recycle. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1

[REBOL] ENBASE bug Re:

2000-07-20 Thread larry
ith the decimal value 2, hex value 2, and binary value 0010? >> enbase/base to-string to-char 2 2 ;a little awkward == "0010" If you want the answer as a REBOL binary! value use >> to-binary to-string to-char 2 == #{02} I have attached a very short script wh

[REBOL] roundoff? Re:

2000-07-18 Thread larry
== -1.01 BTW This works better than your roundoff function for negative values: >> roundoff -1.0051 == -1 Cheers -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 6:57 PM Subject: [REBOL] roundoff? > I needed a

[REBOL] shortcut? Re:(2)

2000-07-18 Thread larry
uot; "series" "series" "series"] >> b/2/1: #"a" == "aeries" >> b == ["series" "aeries" "series" "series" "series"];only second series changed Now they are independent. Which one you want

[REBOL] Relative to Absolute Paths (again). Re:

2000-07-16 Thread larry
Hi Bruno Try this: parse page: read http://site [ some [ thru "=^"/" here: (insert back here "http://site") ] to end ] Note the use of 'back HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[REBOL] Reading Binary data Re:(3)

2000-07-16 Thread larry
Hi Tim Seems that skip does not work with open/direct/binary although it does work with open/direct. This may be a bug. In the meantime, you can advance the file pointer with copy/part: >> fp: open/direct/binary %test-char.r >> copy/part fp 10 ; returned value discarded when run in a scri

[REBOL] bugs in Rebol/Core 2.3 Re:

2000-07-15 Thread larry
quot;B*" == none >> find/any/case t "b*" == "brbar" >> find/case t "B" == none >> find/case t "b" == "brbar" Seems OK. Perhaps previous definitions or executed programs messed something up on yours. Cheers -Larry - Origina

[REBOL] func[func] Re:(11)

2000-07-14 Thread larry
ral people over a period of several weeks. Hopefully, more complete documentation of REBOL from the creators is on the way. That would help a lot. BTW If you figure out any neat ways to do some of these symbolic things, please let us know :-) -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EM

[REBOL] Rebol script tag in html to do from inside rebol Re:

2000-07-12 Thread larry
Hi Galt The command is not correct (I seem to have deleted the e-mail from which you quoted). It should be just do http://www.rebol.com/library/scripts/inhtml.r Use of READ is what causes the problem. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECT

[REBOL] func[func] Re:(9)

2000-07-11 Thread larry
ibly because of the lack of dynamic binding in REBOL. Presumably in REBOL 1.x this was possible. One way of looking at the encapsulated 'make-add is that while REBOL does not natively provide them, it can be used to create (somewhat cumbersome) structures which emulate certain features of languages like Scheme. Cheers -Larry

[REBOL] func[func] Re:(7)

2000-07-11 Thread larry
7;s except that the stored objects are shown when doing >>source make-add but 'saved is still a global word. With /local as above, 'saved is known only in the context of the function make-add. Sorry for the confusion -Larry - Original Message - From: Larry Palmiter <[

[REBOL] func[func] Re:(6)

2000-07-10 Thread larry
x][ saved: [] get in last append saved make object! [ z: x f: func [y][+ z y] ] 'f ] Cheers -Larry

[REBOL] Browser? Re:(3)

2000-07-06 Thread larry
Hi Pete In order for the reb page to work, the PUBLIC subdirectory of the /View home path on your machine must exist before the reb page is accessed. You may need to create it manually. HTH -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

[REBOL] Status words Re:

2000-06-22 Thread larry
Hi Harry The globally known words are returned in a block by words: first system/words You can print them one to a line with foreach word first system/words [print word] You can use WHAT to list all functions. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &

[REBOL] Optional Arguments Working? Re:(3)

2000-06-21 Thread larry
d our correspondence to feedback. Of course, the bug credit is yours. Cheers Larry REBOL [] print { Bug in optional args called from script. If 123 is removed from the 6th call to f, f is not called at all. } f: func [a [any-type!]][print "f got called"] f f f f f f 123 halt - O

[REBOL] Optional Arguments Working? Re:

2000-06-21 Thread larry
at OS are you using? What is in your user.r file and other scripts that may have been invoked before the code in question? -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 9:19 AM Subject: [REBOL] Optional Argument

[REBOL] how to do the string comparison Re:

2000-06-20 Thread larry
Hi tZ >> a: "helloworld" == "helloworld" >> found? find a "hello" == true >>help find ; for more info -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 3:24 P

[REBOL] teeny-bits-of-time/2 Re:(6)

2000-06-20 Thread larry
y" uses this approach with Scheme as the high-level interpreted programming language. -Larry > -pekr- > > -Larry

[REBOL] teeny-bits-of-time/2 Re:(4)

2000-06-20 Thread larry
om line was that REBOL was about 80-300 times slower than MATLAB which uses highly optimised C-code for the same operations. This is a more realistic comparison for numerics intensive work. These REBOL times are comparable with those achieved in other interpreted languages, indeed much better than some. -Larry > Rodney

[REBOL] layout/style ? Re:

2000-06-19 Thread larry
Hi z Try >> view layout/parent .. The name was changed from style to parent in Viewbeta 4.1. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:55 PM Subject: [REBOL] layout/style ? > in /view

[REBOL] REBOL and the unix shell Re:

2000-06-13 Thread larry
Hi Jeff Very nice! I really like short command utilities like these. -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 11:56 PM Subject: [REBOL] REBOL and the unix shell > > Say folks: I put up an ar

[REBOL] solved (was detach-image: func (was: %detach.r ) ) Re:(2)

2000-06-13 Thread larry
Hi Eric Welcome back! Your detach function works like a charm on my e-mail text file. The file was produced with: write %msg.txt read pop://user:pass%pop-server Cheers -Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 13,

[REBOL] solved (was detach-image: func (was: %detach.r ) ) Re:(8)

2000-06-12 Thread larry
, we would like to get the image file name as well? Sorry for the stupid questions, but I don't know much about this. Cheers Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 6:18 PM Subject: [REBOL] solved (was deta

[REBOL] downloading big files Re:(3)

2000-06-12 Thread larry
same amount of time. Not sure how much timeout can be increased or if it works in all cases, but the server was pretty fast with a consistent download speed of about 37 kilobytes/sec which is close to the DSL max transfer rate. It is likely that View has improved networking code. -Larry

[REBOL] detach-image: func (was: %detach.r ) Re:(6)

2000-06-12 Thread larry
Hi Ryan Oops, forgot to say you might need to do a TRIM/ALL on the text string to get rid of whitespace, before doing the DEBASE operation. -Larry - Original Message - From: Larry Palmiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 3:33 PM Sub

[REBOL] detach-image: func (was: %detach.r ) Re:(5)

2000-06-12 Thread larry
ailed myself bay.jpg as an attachment using base64 encoding, read my pop mail box into a file, extracted the base64 image with a text editor and it was exactly the same as BIN64 above. HTH Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mond

[REBOL] set in object 'variable "string" Re:

2000-06-07 Thread larry
definitions placed in the argument block will be added to those in ob1. If a varname in the block is already in ob1, it will be redefined to the new value in ob2. HTH Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10

[REBOL] Windows path question Re:

2000-06-04 Thread larry
Hi A.D.ing Try file:/d/autoexec.bat You can also access files in the more standard way: print read %/d/sub1/sub2/my-file.bat HTH Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 7:31 PM Subject: [REBOL] Windows p

[REBOL] REBOL/View examples Re:

2000-06-02 Thread larry
Hi Bo Very nice! Everything works fine. Cheers Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 5:46 PM Subject: [REBOL] REBOL/View examples > Here are some REBOL/View button examples which are pretty easy to

[REBOL] color-code.r problem Re:

2000-05-30 Thread larry
! port!] value /only "Appends a block value as a block" ][ head either only [insert/only tail series reduce :value ] [ insert tail series reduce :value ] ] HTH Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

[REBOL] hidden variables in objects? Re:(12)

2000-05-28 Thread larry
bug. ;) So what is END? Larry

[REBOL] Mailing List Maintenance Re:(2)

2000-05-26 Thread larry
decimal!. HTH Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 8:18 PM Subject: [REBOL] Mailing List Maintenance Re: > Hi: > For a presentation: > Does any have a ball-park figure for how much mem

[REBOL] variable not local? Re:

2000-05-22 Thread larry
Hi Ryan Same gotcha as the one I just answered. To initialize an empty block or string within a function body or more generally within another block, you need to use 'copy. In your code changecontent-parts: [] tocontent-part: copy [] HTH Larry - Original Message -

[REBOL] strange Re:

2000-05-22 Thread larry
executes. HTH Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 3:16 PM Subject: [REBOL] strange Hi! I have the following code: num: 30 to: load %file until [ list: [] print length? list loop num [ elem: first to

[REBOL] inserting block into block Re:

2000-04-15 Thread larry
Hi Chris Use the /only refinement to append: append/only a b Cheers Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 5:31 PM Subject: [REBOL] inserting block into block > Hi folks, > > I have a qu

[REBOL] stocks2.r Re:

2000-03-20 Thread larry
Hi there You can try sending an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] requesting a copy of View beta. AFAIK, this is the official way to get a copy. HTH Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:18 PM Subject: [REBO

[REBOL] official guide Re:

2000-03-14 Thread larry
Hi Ryan The release date is listed as April 2000. You can read three chapters here: http://www.pbg.mcgraw-hill.com/betabooks/feb00/goldman/index.html HTH Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 9:1

[REBOL] Weird stuff with time Re:(2)

2000-03-09 Thread larry
Howdy folks Looking at those weird time! values must have boggled my brain. Please read "hour" for "year" in my previous post #121264. The message is copied below with correction. (Bo: can you substitute for previous post to feedback?) Sorry for the confusion Larry --

[REBOL] Weird stuff with time Re:

2000-03-09 Thread larry
ng C-code. One simple fix would be to return the "Invalid time" error for values of year greater than 596522. I am copying this to feedback as a bug. You, of course, deserve full credit for the discovery. Good catch! Cheers Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTE

[REBOL] Money Trouble? Re:(2)

2000-03-06 Thread larry
y version of REBOL: >> system/version == 2.2.0.3.1 Cheers Larry From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 11:16 AM Subject: [REBOL] Money Trouble? Re: > Larry, > > I had similar problems about a month ago using to-money. They are &g

[REBOL] Money Trouble?

2000-03-06 Thread larry
oblems are not due to the round-off intrinsic to decimal values. Even in the worst case we have 15 significant digits of precision. The example shows incorrect rounding in the 4th significant digit. I wonder whether others have noticed this problem? Note: this has been CC'd to feedback as a bug. Cheers Larry

[REBOL] Return value from a Script??? Re:(3)

2000-03-03 Thread larry
Hi Gabriele Thanks for the correction. Silly of me to overlook the most simple method of returning a value from a script. Ciao, Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 4:58 AM Subject: [REBOL] Return value f

[REBOL] Return value from a Script??? Re:

2000-03-02 Thread larry
urn in the code following the call of Script2. 3) A script could write a file of results using 'load or 'write and these could be read in by another script. By designing scripts with these ideas in mind, it is probably not really necessary to have an explicit return mechanism

[REBOL] Sending bytes to TCP port? Re:

2000-03-01 Thread larry
-interpreted as the high-half unsigned's. Someday I will make a whole package for binary signed/unsigned integers, but no time now. I also have a function for extracting a REBOL integer from a 2/4 byte binary value. Let me know if you need it. Hope this helps Cheers Larry - Ori

[REBOL] ftp limits? Re:(3)

2000-03-01 Thread larry
at Rebol tech can diagnose the problem? (I see Sterling has already replied:-) I just tried WS-FTP a seond time. It took 120 seconds for the dir-list to start downloading. The dir-list was fine. Hope this helps Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL P

[REBOL] Ally list Re:

2000-02-29 Thread larry
Hi Cal You could try sending e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] begging to be subscribed to the ALLY list.:-) Should work. Ciao Larry ' - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 9:00 PM Subject: [REBOL] Ally

[REBOL] Testing REBOL/View Beta List Re:(4)

2000-02-28 Thread larry
lk X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 X-SELMA: [ALLY] 6798 Hope this helps Cheers Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 1:48 AM Subject: [REBOL] Testing REBOL/View Bet

[REBOL] New Floating-Point Functions

2000-02-27 Thread larry
t present a few examples below. If there is interest, I am willing to write a few short tutorial posts about floating-point in REBOL. Have fun exploring REBOL numbers:-) Larry EXAMPLES REAL/SPLIT calculates the three components of the IEEE representation of a double

[REBOL] obtaining IP address of incoming connection Re:

2000-02-25 Thread larry
s at browser end are found in http-port object: the browser IP is http-port/host and the connection IP is in http-port/port-id. You can also do a reverse dns look-up on the host IP and log the domain-name if desired. Hope this helps Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[REBOL] URL-encoding Re:

2000-02-15 Thread larry
Hi Chris Try: >>myurl: to-url "Chris L" == Chris%20L Cheers Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:52 PM Subject: [REBOL] URL-encoding > Hello folks, > > I'm curre

[REBOL] Demo of console animation, the REBOL City Music Hall REBOLettes Re:

2000-02-13 Thread larry
Hi Ralph Applause, Applause, Another Chorus. It wrapped in the e-mail but I managed to fix it. Cheers Larry ( who also did not have anything important to do Sunday evening :-) - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 1

[REBOL] Problem with to-money ??? Re:(5)

2000-02-13 Thread larry
illion (45 million million). If the floating point arithmetic is properly handled, the precision should remain at $0.01 up to 2 ** 53 which is about 90 trillion. Cheers Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 13

[REBOL] Glossary of terms Re:

2000-02-11 Thread larry
Hi Luis One place to find WEB acronyms: http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms/ Cheers Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: [REBOL] Glossary of terms > Hi Rebols, > > Where can

[REBOL] problem with sort a file Re:(3)

2000-02-10 Thread larry
e [append/only blk to-block line] == [[2-Feb-2000 1 2] [1-Feb-2000 2 1] [6-Feb-2000 3 5] [24-Feb-2000 4 6]] >> sort blk == [[1-Feb-2000 2 1] [2-Feb-2000 1 2] [6-Feb-2000 3 5] [24-Feb-2000 4 6]] >> Hope this helps Larry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &l

[REBOL] Map Function for Nested Blocks Re:(2)

2000-02-03 Thread larry
passing a function with a get-word in the spec and using the parens to handle function literals. This technique can be applied to any function which requires a function passed as an input parameter and IMHO results in a clean syntax for the function calls. Your thoughts? Larry - Original M

[REBOL] Multidimensional arrays ... Re:

2000-02-03 Thread larry
[3 4] copy "" == [["" "" "" ""] ["" "" "" ""] ["" "" "" ""]] >> i: 2 j: 3 == 3 >> poke pick ar i j "hello" == ["" "" "hello" ""] >> ar == [[

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