Monday, May 3, 2004, 11:54:45 AM, Gregg wrote:
> This is interesting. I've always thought of PROBE as "show me the > value" where the inlining aspect was the big benefit, but that it > didn't add as much as it could for certain types of values (e.g. > binary! and bitset!). that's interesting indeed ;) different mindsets :) i'd strongly urge for 'probe to be not modified for exactly the same reasons anton, romano and maxim have expressed before. i see probe as a way to inspect data and be able to immediately use the probe's output (e.g. feed the probe'd data back into a REBOL console). > What about a refinement on PROBE that makes it produce DUMPed > output? no problem with that ;) however i don't how the refinement would produce a benefit compared to adding just another function (named dump, for example :) -- Best regards, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.