[REBOL] REBOL, AMIGA/TAO & MICRO$OFT DOT-NET (Long!)

2000-09-29 Thread edinburgh
This one is for all you AMIGANS out there! Petr? Whilst perusing the Amiga website yesterday & reading about "The Amiverse" Amiga Digital Environment & it's various layers & foundation technologies, I came across the following sentence.. "In addition, Amiga is working on a revolutionary comm

[REBOL] A FORMAL REBOL SPECIFICATION

2000-09-29 Thread edinburgh
For my own interests I require to write a formal specification for REBOL as a language & technology. I see from the archives that this topic has been raised quite a few times by various different people with litle or no response from anyone at REBOL Technologies. On the basis that it's obvious

[REBOL] A FORMAL REBOL SPECIFICATION

2000-09-29 Thread edinburgh
For my own interests I require to write a formal specification for REBOL as a language & technology. I see from the archives that this topic has been raised quite a few times by various different people with little or no response from anyone at REBOL Technologies. On the basis that it's obviousl

[REBOL] SCHEME: 'CONSOLE

2000-09-29 Thread edinburgh
Regarding ports & schemes in REBOL, I wonder if anybody on the group has any experience or comments to make on the console scheme as I can't find anything in the docs about it anywhere. I see under probe system/ports/input & probe system/ports/output returns an object with the scheme type 'consol

[REBOL] OSCAR: :REBOL Group Announcement

2000-09-26 Thread edinburgh
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[REBOL] The OSCAR Diaries - Initial Entry ( LONG! )

2000-09-26 Thread edinburgh
spending time with my lovely girlfriend Dawn & relaxing by playing & watching soccer & drinking alcohol. Till later fellow REBOL friends, Mark Dickson ** Veitchi (Scotland) Ltd 31-37 Pitt Street Leith Edinburgh EH6 4BY

[REBOL] REALLY DISCOVER THE POWER OF REBOL

2000-09-21 Thread edinburgh
to get your hands dirty in a more cumbersome language like C or Modula/Pascal etc. We're on the same side. Fellow Rebol friend, Mark Dickson ** Veitchi (Scotland) Ltd 31-37 Pitt Street Leith Edinburgh EH6 4BY Direct Tel : (44) 0131 554 76

[REBOL] REALLY DISCOVER THE POWER OF REBOL

2000-09-21 Thread edinburgh
REALLY DISCOVER THE POWER OF REBOL I have been learning, using & experimenting with REBOL for about 18 months now and I'm sure like many others on this List am very excited about REBOL, it's power & it's prospects. As I once read somewhere, REBOL is the cocaine of scripting languages, it is high

[REBOL] Blue Truck for Sale

2000-07-20 Thread edinburgh
Regarding the mysterious blue truck on the Rebol Web-Cam, ownership is uncertain but [EMAIL PROTECTED] is willing to auction it on e-bay. browse http://demo.rebol.net/webcam for the new - "updated" & commented! page cheers folks, Mark Dickson

[REBOL] REBOL BROWSER

2000-07-20 Thread edinburgh
REBOL BROWSER Hi Andrew Martin / Rebol List, Regards my proposals for a Rebol Browser. Whilst I admire the work done by Ingo Hoffman regarding his Rebol Browser project, and respect Ingo for the skill & knowledge he contributes to the Rebol & Ally Lists, I think trying to display html & web-con

[REBOL] REBOL CONTEXT / SCOPE EXPLANATIONS

2000-07-20 Thread edinburgh
REBOL CONTEXT / SCOPE EXPLANATIONS Perhaps in my earlier post I should have made it clearer that relative newbies will have seen hundreds of posts devoted to these topics, I know ( or at least I think I know ) what is happening when the little script I gave is executed. I also agree that it is

[REBOL] REBOL SCOPING / CONTEXT EXPLANATIONS

2000-07-20 Thread edinburgh
REBOL SCOPING / CONTEXT EXPLANATIONS This post is in response to long running threads on this mailing list about Rebol internal operations including scoping & context, the conversations have over time progressed to an advanced state. However for some of the newer Rebollers all this must seem v

[REBOL] ROUNDING FUNCTION

2000-07-19 Thread edinburgh
ROUNDING FUNCTION regarding Ralph's comments I agree it would be nice to see a rounding function native to rebol and also a /refinement to specify to number of decimal places you would like a number rounded to. sounds like an appropriate suggestion for FEEDBACK Ralph ? cheers, Mark Dickson

[REBOL] Rebol WebCam View

2000-07-19 Thread edinburgh
Rebol WebCam View I was wondering if it would be possible for the Webcam be moved to show a view of Rebol Technologies premises, I'm sure lots of people on the lists would like to see where the Rebol "MAGIC" is performed. Also the webcam doesn't seem to update very regularly, is there a problem

[REBOL] Rbol Language Extensions Re: (7)

2000-07-14 Thread edinburgh
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[REBOL] REBOL BROWSER POSSIBILITIES

2000-07-14 Thread edinburgh
REBOL BROWSER POSSIBILITIES I see from list activity that their is a /View browser project under way. I've sampled this prjoect and it's a notable & worthwhile effort, my 2 cents on this issue are why are we trying to recreate the wheel in trying to render HTML etc in Rebol/View. Internet Explo

[REBOL] REBOL HORDES

2000-07-14 Thread edinburgh
tions as /VIEW doesn't appear to have any "canvas" like functionality for drawing or graph-like tasks" ] Anyone care to elaborate further ? thanks, Mark Dickson reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *