Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry for the absconse example.
> More likely you meant this...
> I've seen
> farm: [
> "bob" "cecil"
> "bill" "chris"
> "barry" "curtis"
> ]
> foreach [pig chicken] farm [print reduce [pig chicken]]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 10:45 PM
> Subject: [REBOL] simple foreach question Re:(2)
>>
>> The nice thing about foreach is that you can also parse your block
>> into more than than one word (variable):
>>
>> farm: [[pigs] [chickens]]
>>
>> foreach [pig chicken] farm [print [pig chicken]]
>>
>> > Boss is going to please with you aint 'e?
>>
>> > "page" is being defined by the foreach.
>>
>> > So for each element in the block "pages" foreach will set the word page
> to
>> > the value of that element - it then
>> > does the body block with that value.
>>
>> > You can use whatever you want:
>> > foreach qwrtyuiop ["one" "two" "three"] [print qwrtyuiop]
>> > Note that qwrtyuiop only has a value in the body block.
>>
>> > see:
>> >>> help foreach
>> > USAGE:
>> > FOREACH 'word data body
>>
>> > DESCRIPTION:
>> > Evaluates a block for each value(s) in a series.
>> > FOREACH is a native value.
>>
>> > ARGUMENTS:
>> > word -- Word or block of words to set each time (will be local)
> (Type:
>> > get-wor
>> > d word block)
>> > data -- The series to traverse (Type: series)
>> > body -- Block to evaluate each time (Type: block)
>>
>> > Brett.
>>
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 4:26 AM
>> > Subject: [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] wait 1:00
>> >> ]
>> >>
>> >> where did "page" come from? is it arbitrary? if the block was of
> species
>> > of
>> >> pigs, would it be "foreach pig pigs?
>> >>
>> >> just curious. Let me know if I get annoying.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> Eat more spinach.
>> >> -tom
>> >>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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