Quoting Gregg Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello Gregg,
Well your remark is okay, still :-) I.E. a repeat, foreach or an forskip..etc.. also uses a variable automaticly defined using the function.... okay these are comtrolled! Then again i think it indeed would make life even more easier is there was a setting that allows the use of undefined/auto-defined variables in rebol for smaler scripts. Thanks for the reply! (R)egards, Norman. > Hi Norman, > > << I would expect that a variable not defined could automaticly > be assigned. ie -> >> > > It certainly could be, but REBOL isn't designed to do it (though I'm sure > they could change it if they wanted to). While that kind of thing can be > helpful in building very small scripts, it's also hard to find bugs that > can > come from that behavior. E.g. you type a name incorrectly but REBOL doesn't > warn you, and creates the new word silently. Now your code "runs" but > doesn't work correctly. REBOL actually goes further toward "intelligence" > than any other language I know in many ways. By that I mean it works in > such > a way that makes your life easier, and works as expected. I often find when > I have a problem and start debugging it, by the time I've eliminated half > the code, it works correctly. I just try to make it much too hard. REBOL > almost always provides a simple solution. Often times the people on the ML > will tell me about a built-in function that does what I want already, or > will show me how to do something with 3 or 4 words that I wrote 20 lines of > code to do. > > Just my 2c. > > --Gregg > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > > -- dinner/conversation: "How do you eat your Rebol in the morning?" -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
