[REBOL] Polymorphic Re:(3)

2000-01-23 Thread lmecir
Sorry for disappointing you, but the proposed version doesn't handle correctly the computed blocks and Break. A different approach: ; a helper function db: func [[throw] arg] [ either block? arg [do arg] [arg] ] pif: func [[throw] {polymorphic if, lazy evaluation, minimal checking}

[REBOL] Re: Need help with databases...newbie. Be gentle :) Re:

2000-01-23 Thread giesse
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On 22-Gen-00, you wrote: P But it doesn't :-) I followed example from REBOL/Apache: P install: func ['name body][set in self name func [] bind body P 'self ] P Now I am confused, if REBOL/Apache module uses different kind P of object behavior or I am confused

[REBOL] Re: Writer's block -- Nondeterministic REBOL

2000-01-23 Thread giesse
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On 22-Gen-00, you wrote: j Inspired by Dijkstra's "guarded command" notation, and j empowered by recent contributions from Gabriele and Eric, I'm j offering an experimental implementation of Dijkstra's j nondeterministic control structures. This is very

[REBOL] Re: Need help with databases...newbie. Be gentle :) Re:(2)

2000-01-23 Thread giesse
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On 23-Gen-00, you wrote: A MyBase!: [ A;blah blah A] A MyBase: make object! MyBase! A MyDerived!: append deep/copy MyBase [ A; More stuff on the end. A] A MyDerived: make object! MyDerived! MyBase!: make object! [...] MyBase: make MyBase! []

[REBOL] Re: I wrote a REBOL beginners tutorial http://home.pacifier.com/~mcginty/rebol_fucke

2000-01-23 Thread doncox
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 22-Jan-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote down what I learned so far, hope some beginners find it useful. It's very incomplete, not bad for an unpaid beta tester, I think. Also available at http://home.pacifier.com/~mcginty/rebol_fucked.html

[REBOL] Rebol Web Server Re:(7)

2000-01-23 Thread robert . muench
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Rebol Web Server Re:(6) I am. I've been using Xitami for a bit of in-house prototyping, and am using REBOL for CGI underneath it.

[REBOL] get msg N

2000-01-23 Thread mlinden

[REBOL] get msg N Re:

2000-01-23 Thread news . ted
N has to be a number taken from the Internet header of a previous message, for example get msg 86382 Another way to view a prior message is http://rebol.org/userlist/archive/86/382.html -Ted.

[REBOL] odd form posting problem

2000-01-23 Thread collins-e
Hi Folks, Apologies for the plenty number of recent e-mails about my form posting problems under IIS4. I do now almost have it working properly except for one minor problem. The problem occurs only with IIS form postings (well it never happened under apache here anyway) where the contents of a

[REBOL] odd form posting problem Re:

2000-01-23 Thread icimjs
Hi Ed, decode-cgi returns a block containing set-word string pairs. Given cgi-input: "name=Ed[EMAIL PROTECTED]" == "name=Ed[EMAIL PROTECTED]" decode-cgi will return decode-cgi cgi-input == [name: "Ed" email-address: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"] Note that the set-words name: and email-address: have

[REBOL] Writer's block -- Nondeterministic REBOL Re:(3)

2000-01-23 Thread larry
Hi Joel Yup. You got it. The eq? (etc.) functions are convenient, but I prefer (provided we get the correct answers!) the infix notation. Also, the infix comparison operators are faster than the prefix operators. Positive? (etc.) is currently the fastest way to make correct comparsions, although

[REBOL] Re: odd form posting problem Re:

2000-01-23 Thread collins-e
On 23-Jan-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said about the subject [REBOL] odd form posting problem Re:: Hi, To use the email address as an email address, you have to convert it to a value of datatype email address to-email user-input/email-address == [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to-email email-address ==

[REBOL] Need help with databases...newbie. Be gentle :) Re:(4)

2000-01-23 Thread Al . Bri
Gabriele wrote: MyBase!: make object! [...] MyBase: make MyBase! [] MyDerived!: make MyBase! [extension] MyDerived: make MyDerived! [] That approach I tried first of all, until I discovered that REBOL only _shallow_ copies embedded objects. MyObject!: make object! [ AnObject: make

[REBOL] Re: POST method under IIS3/4

2000-01-23 Thread ejolson
Hello, On 20-Jan-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, It's me again. I'm not sure if my mail got lost in the large number of posts in the last few days or if nobody knows the answer. ... Yes, it has been pretty crowded in here the last few days. Elliott

[REBOL] Re: Openletter to Rebol HQ. Re:(10)

2000-01-23 Thread ejolson
Hello, On 20-Jan-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheryl wrote: Dan, Is it possible for Rebol Technologies to provides some screen shots? This might quiet the crowd down a little. Thanks, Cheryl there will be lots of examples with the release, so I don't think screen shots are

[REBOL] Re: Rebol Web Server Re:(5)

2000-01-23 Thread ejolson
Hello, On 22-Jan-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, for those people interested in using Rebol for dynamic web-pages I can only push you to have a look at the Xitami web-server. I have implemented their socket protocol to speak to Rebol. You can even do load-balancing etc. If someone

[REBOL] Secure

2000-01-23 Thread ejolson
I finally got around to looking at 2.2 (too busy with other things, like Rebol and other ML's mail density, holidays, HD crashes and moving) "REBOL/Core Release Notes Version 2.2.0 ... Prior Security Settings The secure function now returns the prior security settings before the new settings

[REBOL] SELMA/subscription change question

2000-01-23 Thread ejolson
In the next 2-3 weeks our ISP (telco) will be splitting off from our current domain (means.net), so our e-mail accounts will at some time be changing. If I subscribe with the new address and wait 10 minutes to unsubscribe the old one, should that eliminate any gap in ML reception? Elliott

[REBOL] FREEZING

2000-01-23 Thread ptretter
Will there be the ability to "freeze" rebol scripts to executables in the future.

[REBOL] How do I ... Retrieve a message from SELMA Re:(3)

2000-01-23 Thread news . ted
On 1/23/2000 at 2:04 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: { But then, if you're getting the number from the header, don't you already have a copy of the mail? If you don't have a copy of the mail you want, how do you know which number to ask for? } It's a convient way to refer to a prior message without

[REBOL] Nondeterministic REBOL (was: Polymorphic) Re:(2)

2000-01-23 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'm going to have to play with them a bit before I can tell whether I'll want to use them regularly, but the ideas behind them are definitely worth pondering. Although I've used them quite a bit in algorithm design, I certainly want a much richer set of control

[REBOL] Openletter to Rebol HQ. Re:(12)

2000-01-23 Thread Michael_Chean
Rebol is going to be BIG!

[REBOL] Openletter to Rebol HQ. Re:(13)

2000-01-23 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rebol is going to be BIG! Gee, no! I hope it will fit on floppy still ;-))) -pekr-

[REBOL] Openletter to Rebol HQ. Re:(14)

2000-01-23 Thread Michael_Chean
Yeah I'm sure it will ! :-) But Carl's description sounds great. This sounds just like what I need to start doing some internet programming.