Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2003 18:45 schrieb Steven White:
> Romano,
>
> THANK YOU!
>
> So parts of REBOL are written in...REBOL!  Those RT guys are quite the
> hackers.
>

Eventually RT should mention that more? 

> A few items:
>
> 1.  My cutting and pasting operation broke a couple long lines into two
> lines, and caused some syntax errors.  I was able to fix that.
>

echo %sourcecollection.r
then every rebol-output will be written to file too.
so typing all the "source something" gives you a nice editable file.

> 2.  In your note I believe you meant "source send" instead of "source
> send-mail."  I got by that also.
>
> 3.  The code contained a "now/precise" which seems to not exist in my
> AIX REBOL.  The "precise" refinement seemed to be non-essential, so I
> just deleted it, leaving only "now."
>

now/precise has fractions of a second 
(lots of digits. don't know if the internal clock is really that precise).
Usefull for benchmarking, or when you need unique keys.
if second-precision is ok, no problem.

> 4.  You also seem to need "source context" to make it
> syntax-error-free.  I copied that just the way I copied the other two
> function.
>

Right. Another usefull is 'attempt, while you are at getting stuff ;)

-Volker

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