[REBOL] where are all the components? Re:(2)

I loved reading the two post from Jake and Garold. They express things I've been musing over for years. My own, coupla bits: With any description there is an irreducible amount of information that has to be encoded. Whether this has been done as an interface or as a monolithic program or

[REBOL] shortcut? Re:(2)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean like this?: a: head insert/dup copy [] "series" 5 == ["series" "series" "series" "series" "series"] Type 'help insert' to get more info. Cheers, Gisle Ahh... the dup refinement! *smacks head* Thanks for your assistance - and you too, pekr :)

[REBOL] Re: [REBOL] Is é a valid char for use in urls?

I can read this file: read http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/resume.html but not this one: read http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/résumé.html ** User Error: URL error: http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/résumé.html. ** Where: read http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/résumé.html snip An unescaped

[REBOL] shortcut? Re:(2)

Hi Gisle Nice solution. I would like to add a small clarification. When you use insert/dup it places 5 references to the one instance of the series into the new block. a: head insert/dup copy [] "series" 5 == ["series" "series" "series" "series" "series"] a/2/1: #"a";change first

[REBOL] Re: where are all the components?

Thanks to everyone who replied to my post on this topic, especially Gary and Brett! I hope to find time to think about this a little more and maybe type up a few more thoughts, but in the meantime, I got an interesting message from Marcel Weiher on the MacOS X mailing list today with some quotes

[REBOL] FXP Site to Site transfers

Does anyone know if REBOL/Core support FXP capabilities such as like the flashfxp ftp client at www.flashfxp.com. I have not seen any information on how to do this.

[REBOL] large-scale REBOL coding?

On 07/17/2000 04:11 PM Jake wrote: Take Zope (www.zope.org), for instance, a Web application server written in Python (with a few native modules). I just downloaded the latest version and ran a quick line count on all the .py files: 83165 lines, plus another 10391 lines for the ZServer HTTP

[REBOL] Rebol's argument handling is broken Re:(4)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grep works similarly as REBOL currently does, considering arguments preceded by - to be switches regardless of where they are placed. For example: Before and after args: grep -A 3 foo * -vi In between and after args: grep foo -B

[REBOL] shortcut? Re:

A few ideas d: insert/only/dup [] [this] 5 head d == [[this] [this] [this] [this] [this]] or array/initial 5 [this] == [this this this this this] or array/initial 5 [[this]] == [[this] [this] [this] [this] [this]] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[REBOL] Bug in 'use? Re:(2)

Hi Ladislav, 15-Jul-2000 you wrote: Hi, don't know, what is the problem, but here is a merge-sort working for me looong time: [...] Thanks! In the meantime, I got it working by simply having the temporary variables as parameters to the function. Mean, but it works. As a curiosity, I also got

[REBOL] Re: console via GGI

Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], Comments below... On 18-Jul-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible to use the REBOL console via CGI? As follows: 1. Enter commands in to a text area within a Web form. The text area is given the name "rebol_input" TEXTAREA NAME="rebol_input"

[REBOL] large-scale REBOL coding? Re:

Hi, Wow, that makes my REBOL program look puny. A mere 7242 lines (including comments). And I was feeling so proud of it. Wh! My web directory now has 7383 lines of code (without comments - I don't use them with CGI scripts) and it still isn't finished, note that I like to pack as many

[REBOL] Rebol's argument handling is broken Re:(4)

Jeff, you seem to be missing the point by comparing REBOL to grep. Suppose I wanted to write grep (or anything else) in REBOL, I'd like it to behave just like that. I'd need a shell wrapper to hide the fact I was running the rebol interpreter with a script and I'd expect any and all args to the

[REBOL] Rebol's argument handling is broken Re:(5)

Howdy, Sean: Jeff, you seem to be missing the point by comparing REBOL to grep. Point taken. Not arguing or debating, was just offering up another program that works like REBOL does now. There are many aspects of REBOL that we're working on improving. Appreciate all the

[REBOL] Introducing Series

Elan Goldman explains REBOL Series in Chapter 5 of REBOL: THE OFFICIAL GUIDE. Free peek at http://www.rebolpress.com/rog/chapter5.pdf. -- Danny Ramsey, Publisher, REBOL Press The Official Source for REBOL Books http://www.REBOLpress.com

[REBOL] Upgrade Function Re:

The same thing happens to me YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

[REBOL] where are all the components? Re:(2)

"Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS." That hilarious! But mostly true! A name to my discontent, "distressing". I knew there was a reason I've been playing (=fun) with Rebol instead of

[REBOL] simple foreach question

howdy guys, I'm on a roll, just trying to "get" simple things. for instance, in the exapmle, pages: [ http://www.cnet.com http://www.rebol.com/index.html http://www.news-wire.com/news/today.html ] loop 24 [ foreach page pages [send [EMAIL PROTECTED] read page]

[REBOL] Need basic help

Greetings! I'm pretty new to REBOL, but sofar its been very useful for me. I am having one problem though. I've got a script created that asks the user for a number of variables which it joins together to create a filename (get_file), example: either find/match ask ["What OS? "] "1"

[REBOL] Bug in Skip with Open/Direct

There is a bug in skip functions for open/direct files. They should seek to their required positions but do not. Look for a fix in the next release. -Carl

[REBOL] roundoff?

I needed a simple two decimal place round off function for a script this evening. This is what I came up with: roundoff: func ["Rounds off to 2 decimal places" a][ a: a * 100 b: a - to-integer a a: to-integer a if b .5 [a: a + 1] a: divide a 100

[REBOL] Is é a valid char for use in urls? Re:(2)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An unescaped é is not valid in URLs, it should be encoded as %E9 http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/résumé.html fails for me in IE5.5, but works in NT4.7 http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/r%E9sum%E9.html works in both. More details can be found in RFCs 1738 and 2396.

[REBOL] Need basic help Re:

Try this... either find/match ask ["What OS? "] "1" [get_file: join patch_number ["-" patch_revision ".tar.gz"]] [get_file: join patch_number ["-" patch_revision ".zip"]] get_file: rejoin [patch_number {-} patch_revision {.zip}] write %get_file read site/:get_file "site" is a

[REBOL] roundoff? Re:

Hi Ralph To really do correct rounding for all possible decimal values requires a bit of work in REBOL. Problems with overflow, round nearest even, etc. For all the gory details see the script decimal.r archived at rebol.org. But just for fun here is a way to use to-money. May fail to give

[REBOL] Docbook?

hey guys, I don't suppose any one has written any docbook tools in REBOL, have they? -- Insert witty saying here. -tom

[REBOL] where are all the components? Re:(6)

this particular example is an implementation of dave winers outliners idea, Did you tell Dave about this thing? I'm sure he'd be really interested to see it :)

[REBOL] Is é a valid char for use in urls? Re:(4)

(user and pass substituted). This works: read ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/resume.html This doesn't: read ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/résumé.html ** User Error: URL error: ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/résumé.html. ** Where: read ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/résumé.html Finally, this does: