[REBOL] Odd behavior with setting variables

2000-07-24 Thread webmaster
I have been writing some code and can't seem to get consistent behavior from 1 loop cycle to another in a FORALL basically when I set some variables initially before going into the loop, the loop cycles and at end of loop before it comes in again i reset the variables to what they need to be.

[REBOL] Ingestable Webcam?

2000-07-24 Thread bpaddock
Subject: A truly embedded camera... Does any one *REALY* want to get *THIS* up close and personal with the Rebol crew? :-) Beats Rebol on a Cell Phone doesn't it? :-) http://www.givenimaging.com/ ...the investigational system consists of the: M2ATM capsule, a patented, disposable v

[REBOL] 'dynamic append' Re:(2)

2000-07-24 Thread rebol
Wow, I sent this message yesterday at around 8:00PM. Why did it take almost 24 hours to make it to the list? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 8:01 PM Subject: [REBOL] 'dynamic append' Re: > What you're trying to do is use

[REBOL] Bug in 'use? Re:(9)

2000-07-24 Thread carl
That looks like a bug. -Carl >Anyway, I can prove that there is no context hierarchy: > >>> a: 1 b: 1 c: 1 >== 1 >>> obj1: make object! [ >[a: 2 >[obj2: make object! [ >[b: 2 >[obj3: make object! [ >[c: 2 >[] >[] >[] >>> blk: [a b c] >=

[REBOL] Words, Bindings and Contexts. (5)

2000-07-24 Thread agem
[ REBOL[ version: 1.0.0.5 file: %/home/volker/edis/screbol-0.1.6.4/public/test.r date: 24-Jul-2000/19:33:50+1:00 author: "volker" purpose: { here is a context-simulator to show what happens with binding. AFAIK. in a way Elan is right with inheritance, virtual function tables in c++ are created

[REBOL] 'dynamic append' Re:

2000-07-24 Thread rebol
What you're trying to do is use dynamic variable names. Some languages like Perl allow this. Perl calls them symbolic links and lets you do things like -- $var = "variable_name"; ${$var} = "hello!"; print $variable_name; -- outputs: "hello!" The reason your "append (joi

[REBOL] sorry, meant Words, Bindings and Contexts. (4) Re:(2)

2000-07-24 Thread lmecir
Hi Volker, no problem, but I didn't receive it (why?) Ladislav > > wrote > [REBOL] Words, Bindings and Contexts. (5) > which is of course > (C) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > :) > > sorry, Ladislav, > > must have thought Re's are now counted :) > concentration.. > > Volker > >

[REBOL] Re: Words, Bindings and Contexts. (5) Re:

2000-07-24 Thread giesse
Hey, I did get only Jeff's message from this thread! Could someone at RT check if they get errors from my account? (Don't need to send me the thread, I'll have a look at it in the archive. In the meantime, I'm sorry if someone asked something to me and I did not answer yet.) Regards, Gabriel

[REBOL] Re: Bug in 'use? Re:(9)

2000-07-24 Thread giesse
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On 23-Lug-00, you wrote: r> good to hear from you. I'm glad to talk with you too; I hope to get your book soon, too, so I'll be able to send you some bug report. ;^) r>> This was REBOL 1.x behaviour. REBOL 2.x is very different in r>> this regard; the word lookup is

[REBOL] Words, Bindings and Contexts. (6)

2000-07-24 Thread lmecir
In the previous sections I answered some questions regarding Contexts. The lifetime Contexts: * The Global Context should last forever, Local Context have indefinite extent, which should mean, that if there were no GC bugs, they should last as long, as they are accessible

[REBOL] sorry, meant Words, Bindings and Contexts. (4) Re:

2000-07-24 Thread agem
wrote [REBOL] Words, Bindings and Contexts. (5) which is of course (C) [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) sorry, Ladislav, must have thought Re's are now counted :) concentration.. Volker

[REBOL] Words, Bindings and Contexts. (5) Re:

2000-07-24 Thread jeff
I've always thought that someone could use REBOL/view to create an animated colored map presentation which demonstrates the nature of contexts... -jeff > In the part 4 I forgot to introduce a special kind of Contexts: > > f) Dangerous Contexts. Example: > > f: func [x] [] sp

[REBOL] Standard input hangs rebol?

2000-07-24 Thread petr
Hello, rebol community! I have the following rebol-script: - REBOL[] probe "hello, world!" - when I say at command prompt "rebol/rebol -q hello-world.r" it works of course. But when I say "echo 12345|rebol/rebol -q hello-world.r" it hangs! Could somebody be so kind as to explain what ha

[REBOL] Words, Bindings and Contexts. (5)

2000-07-24 Thread lmecir
In the part 4 I forgot to introduce a special kind of Contexts: f) Dangerous Contexts. Example: f: func [x] [] special-context? first first :f CRASH I obviously cannot claim that Same-context? works in this case. Now I supply another interesting function: ; actually, Thomas Jensen wa