Arie van Wingerden wrote:
>What I find strange however is that specifying '/ is an invalid lit-word
>but to-lit-word "/" is not.
>This looks like a contradiction to me...
>Any ideas why this works that way (and I am glad it does ;-) ?
>
>
The problem is that the loader (load) understands only a subset of Rebol
value. This is a need, because load must assign a different datatype to
the value when the string start with % or < or " or # or is in the form
2-2-2005 o [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on.
A word in rebol by itself can have ANY syntax, examples of valid rebol
words:
to-word "a%"
to-word "3^""
But load does not understand them. Other examples:
to-word "2-2-1004"
to-word "31"
to-word "3.5e4"
to-word "a/b/c"
and also:
to-word ":a"
to-word "a:"
to-word "'a"
to-word "/a"
Also a 0 char can be in a word:
mold to-word "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ;== "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
A solution to the problem could be the implementation of the mold construct:
#[lit-word! "/"]
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Ciao
Romano Paolo Tenca
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