[REBOL] does REBOL run on Palm or not? Re:(6)

2000-09-11 Thread tbrownell
to-money random 100 TBrownell --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Howdy, Ryan: > > > > Under 20 ? I wish... Try 5 :-) > > > > You all deserve a raise. > >GRIN. > >to-money make hash! [] > >-jeff > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo!

[REBOL] Simple question regarding finding a replacing text between tags...

2000-09-11 Thread tbrownell
Ok, here goes... some-html: "... some html with a set of tags and some trailing text..." Q. How can I find and replace the text between the tags, while leaving the tags intact, so it ends up like this... some-html: "... some html with a replaced text and some trailing text..." ? Parsed seem

[REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:(5)

2000-09-11 Thread rishi
shoot. just realized that another reason for the comment like that is because: (;) looks like a person winking (sideways). you usually wink when you have a secret. Code behind a wink is secret to the interpreter! cool. my block theory still stands though... (I'm sure all you rebol pioneers kn

[REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:(5)

2000-09-11 Thread rishi
well... I think the ";" is used as a comment so people who are comfortable with languages like java, c, C++, etc can still end statments with a semi-colon if they want to. the rebol interpreter will just ignore it. ei. print "hello"; ask "how do you do"; as for the brackets...[]... well when

[REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:

2000-09-11 Thread bobr
both of these topics have been seen before. one of them recently. At 07:53 PM 9/11/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The only thing is that >I don't know of a way to add refinements to objects dynamically. here is its X-selma number: 345023 aka http://rebol.org/userlist/archive/34

[REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:(4)

2000-09-11 Thread allen
>Here's two of those kinds of questions I > know the "answer" to, but let's see if any one else has some > ideas: > > Why is semicolon (;) the REBOL comment character? > Why are square brackets ([]) used for REBOL blocks? > What do the above reasons have in common? Oooh a quiz!! No ide

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(3)

2000-09-11 Thread brian . hawley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >no. The Math/Pie you have created is an instance variable not a static >variable. It is associated with an instance of the class, not the class >itself. A static variable means that there is a single copy of this variable >associated with class itself. You do not need to

[REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:(3)

2000-09-11 Thread jeff
Howdy, Kevin: (REBOL also uses international date standards.) > The language was obviously designed with this as a > conscious choice. I'm dying to know what the reasoning > was. That's a Q. only Carl can really A. He's been figuring out how REBOL should work for

[REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:

2000-09-11 Thread allen
Hi Keith, If you want an answer from RT, you can send your question to feedback. do http://www.rebol.com/feedback.r And choose (2) General Question. But in terms of skip. this may help. To quote Jeff "The typical REBOL parameter arrangement is that which is operated on followed by the things to

[REBOL] Direct! Re: FUDGE: Software for Testing Mechanics

2000-09-11 Thread Al . Bri
Hi, Jennifer, you wrote: > Tell me more (off list is probably best) about Rebol. This is quoted from Rebol - The Official Guide ISBN 0-07-212279-X, Page 4: Rebol is a deceptively simple, user-friendly, effective and tremendously powerful interactive scripting and programming language. It enables

[REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:(2)

2000-09-11 Thread rebol
It's funny, I thought of writing functions like that too. The only thing is, as you very appropriately point out, Rebol is very consistent in this. It's not only 'skip that this applies to, but 'pick, 'select, 'find, etc. As far as I know, every function that deals with a series, extending to word

[REBOL] SMTP and custom header not correct... Re:

2000-09-11 Thread Al . Bri
Jeff Rubin wrote: > this is a snippet of code from the user manual online: > > send/header [EMAIL PROTECTED] "message." make > system/standard/email [ > FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > subject: "This is my unique subject line." > ] > > according to this you can specify the fields when sending out an ema

[REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions. Re:

2000-09-11 Thread Al . Bri
Keith wrote: > Why not (print skip 3 blk) instead of (print skip blk 3)? Here's a 'skp function that does this as an alternative to 'skip. >> skp: func [ [{Returns the series forward or backward from the current position.} [offset [number!] "Can be positive, negative, or zero." [seri

[REBOL] Encryption with REBOL Re:(5)

2000-09-11 Thread ryanc
Carnivore buster or Carnivore bait, I think we both agree this paper to be accurate: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/bsa-final-report.ascii --Ryan * Ryan Cole * Programmer Analyst www.iesco-dms.com 707-468-5400 "Thought is free." -William Shakespeare

[REBOL] does REBOL run on Palm or not? Re:(6)

2000-09-11 Thread Al . Bri
Rebol-Crew-Salary: to money! 10.00 Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://members.ncbi.com/AndrewMartin/ http://members.xoom.com/AndrewMartin/ -><-

[REBOL] Rebol Tech, please answer. Two questions.

2000-09-11 Thread rebol
Hey list, sorry to be annoying. I've asked these two questions before, but I've never really gotten an answer to them, and they're bugging me! 1. I'll just give an example. blk: [11 22 33 44 55] print skip blk 3 44 55 Why not (print skip 3 blk) instead of (print skip blk 3)? What I'm getting at

[REBOL] t-shirts Re:(2)

2000-09-11 Thread RChristiansen
8-P > "> RT can set its own price for the t-shirt and keep every dollar minus > $10.99 for > each t-shirt." > > I like REBOL, its very very promising, but if they can manage to extract > $10.99 from a dollar, I'm buying the company tommorrow :) > > Cheers, > > Chris Walker > PHP/SQL programmer

[REBOL] does REBOL run on Palm or not? Re:(5)

2000-09-11 Thread jeff
Howdy, Ryan: > > Under 20 ? I wish... Try 5 :-) > > You all deserve a raise. GRIN. to-money make hash! [] -jeff

[REBOL] t-shirts Re:

2000-09-11 Thread chris
"> RT can set its own price for the t-shirt and keep every dollar minus $10.99 for > each t-shirt." I like REBOL, its very very promising, but if they can manage to extract $10.99 from a dollar, I'm buying the company tommorrow :) Cheers, Chris Walker PHP/SQL programmer REBOL evangelist, UK

[REBOL] does REBOL run on Palm or not? Re:(4)

2000-09-11 Thread RChristiansen
> > It must be a nightmare. With so many platforms to support, how can they > > even have time to upgrade rebol? I don't understand how they can do it > > (especially with under 20 programmers!)? > > Under 20 ? I wish... Try 5 :-) You all deserve a raise.

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(6)

2000-09-11 Thread chris . double
>So you want all of your script be compiled in a 400k executable? No, I was just making the point that it seemed to be possible to compile REBOL, not that it was a necessity. As an aside, Corman Common Lisp for Win32, the console application (equivalent to Rebol/Core I guess) is a 600K executable

[REBOL] t-shirts

2000-09-11 Thread RChristiansen
OK. I know the guys at REBOL Technologies have more important things to work on, but... We need a REBOL t-shirt! RT could start out real simple by uploading a bitmap of the .r image to http://www.cafepress.com and call that a t-shirt. RT can set its own price for the t-shirt and keep every do

[REBOL] Standardize REBOL?

2000-09-11 Thread gmassar
Hi guys at RT, Do you plan to submit REBOL specs to a standard committee? If so, when will it be expected? Thanks, Geo... PS: I am relatively new to REBOL. It looks a promise for a better language.

[REBOL] read URL => error, exists? URL => false

2000-09-11 Thread princepawn
>> read ftp://1.1.1.1 connecting to: 1.1.1.1 ** User Error: Failed login to 1.1.1.1 as anonymous. Check your login. ** Where: read ftp://1.1.1.1 >> exists? ftp://1.1.1.1 connecting to: 1.1.1.1 == false >> is this a valid set of responses? Or, because there was a read error in both cases, should

[REBOL] read URL => error, exists? URL => false (SAMPLE CODE ATTACHED)

2000-09-11 Thread princepawn
>> read ftp://1.1.1.1 connecting to: 1.1.1.1 ** User Error: Failed login to 1.1.1.1 as anonymous. Check your login. ** Where: read ftp://1.1.1.1 >> exists? ftp://1.1.1.1 connecting to: 1.1.1.1 == false >> is this a valid set of responses? Or, because there was a read error in both cases, should

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(6)

2000-09-11 Thread agem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11-Sep-2000/19:04:09+2:00 > Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! > > On 11-Set-00, you wrote: > > c>> Try compiling this: > c>> > c>> do ask "Please enter some Rebol code: " > > c> FORTH and Lisp systems don't seem to have a problem with this. > c> Most Common Lisp syst

[REBOL] does REBOL run on Palm or not? Re:(3)

2000-09-11 Thread holger
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:25:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I personally think rebol technologies is either brilliant or insane. How the heck do >you support 40+ > platforms? 42 at the moment. > It must be a nightmare. With so many platforms to support, how can they even have >time to

[REBOL] SMTP and custom header not correct...

2000-09-11 Thread jr
this is a snippet of code from the user manual online: send/header [EMAIL PROTECTED] "message." make system/standard/email [ FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: "This is my unique subject line." ] according to this you can specify the fields when sending out an email thru Rebol but I get errors fr

[REBOL] does REBOL run on Palm or not? Re:(2)

2000-09-11 Thread rishi
I personally think rebol technologies is either brilliant or insane. How the heck do you support 40+ platforms? It must be a nightmare. With so many platforms to support, how can they even have time to upgrade rebol? I don't understand how they can do it (especially with under 20 programmers!)?

[REBOL] does REBOL run on Palm or not? Re:

2000-09-11 Thread kevin
> I did not see a Palm release of REBOL/Core on the downloads page at > rebol.com... does it only run on Palms and Handhelds in theory for > the present time? If so, when is this going to become reality? Some time ago RT placed Palm development on indefinite hold due to some OS limitations (sma

[REBOL] Re: Speed and Memory Management in REBOL Re:(2)

2000-09-11 Thread g . santilli
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On 11-Set-00, you wrote: j> Consider the "csv" file below, created by a Well-Known j> Spreadsheet from a Large Redmond Company: Here's a parser for files generated by that monster. :-) HTH, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Amigan - REBOL prog

[REBOL] Re: rebol weak points (i think) Re:(4)

2000-09-11 Thread g . santilli
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On 11-Set-00, you wrote: c>> Try compiling this: c>> c>> do ask "Please enter some Rebol code: " c> FORTH and Lisp systems don't seem to have a problem with this. c> Most Common Lisp systems I know are compiled and have c> interactive input. See Corman Lisp for a

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(6)

2000-09-11 Thread allen
> Someone once described FORTH as "not a programming language, but a > programming language construction kit". I think that there's more than > a grain of truth in applying that description to REBOL as well. It's > just a matter of tradeoffs. > > Carl has given us a highly flexible, customizable

[REBOL] does REBOL run on Palm or not?

2000-09-11 Thread princepawn
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[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(6)

2000-09-11 Thread youpi . technologies
Thanks I will look at that later on. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 3:05 PM Subject: [REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(5) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... Toolbook has very advanced OOP concepts and at the

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(5)

2000-09-11 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... Toolbook has very advanced OOP concepts and at the same time > much simpler and more elegant than other languages. But the only > thing that was really awful was that he coped with object directly > without dynamic linking to some sort of prototype or class or > what

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(5)

2000-09-11 Thread bhandley
Hi, Rishi... > By the way, did anyone write a rebapp to read/post messages on this newsgroups rather than having it > come in my mail box? I am having to constantly subscribe/unsubscribe on demand depending on when I > need to send messages. You could also stick around and help others new to Reb

[REBOL] eScribe Rebol Archive vs rebol.org Archive Re:(6)

2000-09-11 Thread davidv
Hi Allen Thanks for uploading the archive - I joined the list mid-January this year and wouldn't mind getting hold the messages for early Jan so I would be grateful if those could be uploaded too (message numbers 66224 to 74688). I've tried using the "get msg x" command but all I get is repli

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(4)

2000-09-11 Thread youpi . technologies
Hello, Thanks for this discussion. I am interested by that since I had already posted a general question about OOP in Rebol. I have used a language which is Toolkbok who was created by Paul Allen and was the first Visual Language on Windows even before Visual Basic (Bill Gates even said to Paul A

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(5)

2000-09-11 Thread Al . Bri
Rishi wrote: > By the way, did anyone write a rebapp to read/post messages on this newsgroups rather than having it come in my mail box? I am having to constantly subscribe/unsubscribe on demand depending on when I need to send messages. If their is such a rebapp, please let me know! (or do I have

[REBOL] rebol weak points (i think) Re:(4)

2000-09-11 Thread rishi
Thanks Joel! That was great help. I'm surprised I didn't think of using objects in that way. Rebol is more powerful everytime I look at it ...Simple but Powerful... And that modular architecture paper I just read (thanks Andrew...) sounds really interesting! I definately think I've found the la