[REBOL] Dialecting Re:

2000-04-05 Thread giesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How is dialecting different from defining a new word in > Forth? How does this make REBOL better than any language > which allows you to define new words? You will appreciate the difference when REBOL/Core 2.3 will be released. You not only can redefine words, you ca

[REBOL] Dialecting Re:

2000-04-04 Thread kracik
Hi, if you don't have /View, you can look at some dialects even in /Core. REBOL's default "dialect" is a functional language, but there are: 1) parse dialect 2) secure dialect 3) function arguments block dialect You can see that in these contexts words have different meaning and different order

[REBOL] Dialecting Re:(2)

2000-04-04 Thread Al . Bri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How is dialecting different from defining a new word in Forth? How does this make REBOL better than any language which allows you to define new words? And Elan replied: > Dialecting goes beyond just extending REBOL's vocabulary. It permits you to also define your own

[REBOL] Dialecting Re:

2000-04-03 Thread icimjs
Hi, you wrote: >How is dialecting different from defining a new word in >Forth? Dialecting goes beyond just extending REBOL's vocabular. It permits you to also define your own syntactic structures (i.e. language grammar). >How does this make REBOL better than any language >which allows you to