well...
I think the ";" is used as a comment so people who are comfortable with languages like
java, c, C++,
etc can still end statments with a semi-colon if they want to. the rebol interpreter
will just
ignore it.
ei.
print "hello";
ask "how do you do";
as for the brackets...[]... well when together, they look like blocks...don't they
take a look below
--[]
-[][]
[][][]
it looks like i stacked blocks on top of each other. My guess is carl chose [ and ]
for blocks
because it looks like a block when put together...
Rishi
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:42 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:(4)
> >Here's two of those kinds of questions I
> > know the "answer" to, but let's see if any one else has some
> > ideas:
> >
> > Why is semicolon (;) the REBOL comment character?
> > Why are square brackets ([]) used for REBOL blocks?
> > What do the above reasons have in common?
>
> Oooh a quiz!!
>
> No idea..But from a usability point of view, is it just a coincedence that
> these chosen REBOL keys are all together for easy use of the right hand?
> Only need a few keys to do most things on a REBOL keyboard
> ; ' []
> shifted provides us with :"{}
>
> all datatypes! are grouped along the top of the keyboard with the maths
> operators too.
>
> (But this doesn't hold true for all non US keyboard layouts though does it?)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Allen K
>
> I'm left handed and this layout seems natural to me, is it the same for
> right handers?.
>
>
