On Thursday, 4-Novenber-2010 at 18:59:10 Duke Normandin wrote,
>
>So... It seems that several REBOL data-types fall into an umbrella
>category called "series". Is there a particular reason for *categorizing*
>these data-types under the name "series"?

For one, it means routines that are written to handle series will then handle 
all the types that are series. ie...

>> foreach value "abc" [print value]
a
b
c
>> foreach value [xxx yyy zzz] [print value]
xxx
yyy
zzz
>> foreach value %file.r [print value]
f
i
l
e
.
r

-- Carl Read.

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