Hi James, The problem is that the path notation does not allow an element to indicate both a GET and a SET. This will supposedly be fixed in the next version of REBOL.
You could try: poke grid/:x/:y z random true ;only get-words in path or poke pick pick grid x y z random true or if the indices need to be calculated: poke pick pick grid x + 5 y + 5 z + 5 random true POKE and PICK are the native block element manipulation functions and produce faster code than the path notation. BTW FOR is vary slow, it is better to use REPEAT or FOREACH when possible. HTH -Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Marsden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 5:00 PM Subject: [REBOL] Paths, Arrays, Assignment and other bothersome things > Hi All, > > At present I am using the following to assign to an array: > > REBOL [] > grid: array/initial [8 8 8] false > random/seed now > for z -3 2 1 [ > for y -3 2 1 [ > for x -3 2 1 [ > do reform join "grid/" [x + 5 "/" y + 5 "/" z + 5 ": random true"] > ] > ] > ] > print grid > halt > > This works fine but seems to be a rather round-about way to achieve the > assignment. > Is there a better way? > > Ideally I would like to have used something like: > -> grid/:x/:y/:z: random true > but this only gives a get error. > > > James. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
