[REBOL] Re: Another question

2002-02-15 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Andrew, Andrew Martin wrote: > > The ":ended" has to be in the parse rule and outside the action part. Also > you have to move the 'ended point as well. Like: > > began: "[" copy token to "]" "]" ended: ( > if found? other: select/skip pairs token 2 [ >

[REBOL] Re: Another question

2002-02-15 Thread Tom Conlin
>> here: copy "" >> rule: [to "[" mark: "[" [{"red"}|{"green"}|{"blue"}] "]" :kram to end] >> parse erkjhwerjh rjgsradjh e ["green"] riweajf pqwejkfp'okwef} rule == true >> print copy/part mark kram ["green"] seems found On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Alex Liebowitz wrote: > I don't know, I'm trying

[REBOL] Re: OT: Poetry (Was: PROB, then quit)

2002-02-15 Thread Allen Kamp
REBOL occassionally takes a bash at writing poetry when it can. But it does not quite have your skills http://www.rebolforces.com/cgi-bin/shakespeare.cgi Cheers, Allen K - Original Message - From: "Gregg Irwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 20

[REBOL] Re: PROB, then quit

2002-02-15 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Hallvard, Hallvard Ystad wrote: > > ... Thanks again for all help on the list, and maybe we'll meet > again if I should be destined to return to programming. > It's been a real pleasure having your company! If it suits your wishes, I certainly *HOPE* you return to REBOL and this list! Go

[REBOL] Re: Another question

2002-02-15 Thread Andrew Martin
Joel wrote: > Suggestions anyone? What am I overlooking? > began: "[" copy token to "]" "]" ended: ( > if found? other: select/skip pairs token 2 [ > change/part began first other ended > :ended > ] >

[REBOL] Re: REBOL encryption?

2002-02-15 Thread alan parman
sha1 is considered more secure than MD5 checksum/method "your-string" 'sha1 The number of possible sha1 digests is quite large, (can't remember exactly at this moment) so you should have very little chance of convergence to the same digest from two different strings. Do you think you will hav

[REBOL] [View] "working" or "busy" indicator

2002-02-15 Thread alan parman
Is there a predefined way to call the network "Busy" indicator in View? Can't find anything in the View Docs. Or, does anyone have an object or function to share that would work as a "working..." indicator? I would just add something like "busy-function/start" to the beginning of a function,

[REBOL] Re: OT: Poetry (Was: PROB, then quit)

2002-02-15 Thread Gregg Irwin
Wonderful link Mario. Thanks! --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-15 Thread Gregg Irwin
<< I'm developing a program in my company, and an engineer asked how I round the numbers... but... I discovered (I'm still a newbie...) Rebol has only TO-INTEGER function to round a number! No FLOOR, no CEIL, no TRUNC! And... how about Banker's algorithm to round numbers? >> Here's what I came u

[REBOL] Re: REBOL encryption?

2002-02-15 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Alex, << I need some way of encoding text in a way such that for any text , it encodes into a value which no other text (or a very negligible amount) does, and from which it is impossible (or nearly so) to extract the original text except by brute force. >> How about checksum/secure? --Gregg

[REBOL] Re: read/custom and HTTP HEAD behaviour

2002-02-15 Thread j m
Thanks Hallvard & Carl. { I missed the thread in January } >From: Hallvard Ystad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [REBOL] Re: read/custom and HTTP HEAD behaviour >Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:03:04 +0100 > >Here's the solution: >http://www.escribe.c

[REBOL] Re: timers in Core would be enough imo :-) (was) Re: Re: REBOL multithreading

2002-02-15 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Petr, > No :-) Do we have threading? Can you see your View scripts to block you? As with > tcp, when you open your listen port, you can open it in no-wait mode. In this > case wait [portX] checks for data on your portX, but returns imediatelly, either > telling you there is no data, or returni

[REBOL] dump-face patch

2002-02-15 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
This is a fast dump-face patch to put in user.r, hope can be useful to someone (else forget it). It can also dump stylize blocks. rebol [] dump-face: func [ "Print face info for entire pane. (for debugging)" face [object! block!] /local depth style ][ depth: "^-" either block? face [ fore

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-15 Thread Anton Rolls
You could try adding 0.5 first: to-integer (0.5 + n) Anton. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 15 February 2002 11:56 PM > To: REBOL > Subject: [REBOL] ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...) > > I'm developing a program in my

[REBOL] Re: Another question

2002-02-15 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Andrew, Alex, and all, I made the assumption that the list of tokens might be largish and unsuitable for explicit inclusion in the parse rule itself... Andrew Martin wrote: > > Alex wrote: > > the original goal was to replace [red] with an escape character > > followed by "[31m" for example

[REBOL] ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm developing a program in my company, and an engineer asked how I round the numbers... but... I discovered (I'm still a newbie...) Rebol has only TO-INTEGER function to round a number! No FLOOR, no CEIL, no TRUNC! And... how about Banker's algorithm to round numbers? I made some tests: TO-INTE

[REBOL] Re: Excellent REBOLlish Advertising Slogan

2002-02-15 Thread Carl Read
On 15-Feb-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [ between us, ideas become reality ™ ] > Absolutely Excellent! > It's just Pity Armstrong's thought of it first. Possibly, though almost the exact same term's being used here... http://www.realitystation.co.uk/ (: -- Carl Read -- To unsubscribe f

[REBOL] Re: read/custom and HTTP HEAD behaviour

2002-02-15 Thread Carl Read
On 15-Feb-02, j m wrote: > I am trying to query a URL with HTTP HEAD but I get the full HTTP > GET instead > print read/custom http://www.yahoo.com reduce ['HEAD ] > or > response: copy "" > port: open tcp://www.yahoo.com:80 insert port rejoin [ "GET" newline > "host:www.yahoo.com" newline "co

[REBOL] Re: list: multiple columns update

2002-02-15 Thread Anton Rolls
Robert, I am sure you are worrying too much! There is probably init code that initializes both those values before either of those bits of code executes. Sorry I didn't look into it further... :) probe lst/init Anton. > Hi, thanks. Yes it does but I have some questions > > > view layout [ > >

[REBOL] Re: timers in Core would be enough imo :-) (was) Re: Re: REBOL multithreading

2002-02-15 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Charles wrote: >Here's a quick (and probably ignorant) question: >If threading isn't really possible with REBOL, noone said it isn't :-) In fact, Holger posted one long and very nice description of what are the possibilities and consequences of threading in regard to scripting language

[REBOL] Re: read/custom and HTTP HEAD behaviour

2002-02-15 Thread Hallvard Ystad
Here's the solution: http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/index.html?by=OneThread&t=%5BREBOL%5D%20Reading%20HTTP%20headers ~H Dixit j m (09.42 15.02.2002): >I am trying to query a URL with HTTP HEAD but I get the full HTTP GET instead > >print read/custom http://www.yahoo.com reduce ['HEAD ] >

[REBOL] Re: Another question

2002-02-15 Thread Gabriele Santilli
At 03.04 15/02/02, Alex wrote: >Okay, that's nice, but I want to parse real text, not a block. I'm just >going to use repeated replace statements here (since the original goal was >to replace [red] with an escape character followed by "[31m" for example), >but I was hoping to go through the vari

[REBOL] Re: ANN: Rugby + server chaining + threading

2002-02-15 Thread Petr Krenzelok
http://www.rebolforces.com/~erebol beware - very complicated site! ;-) -pekr- Charles wrote: >I'm late getting to this, and for that I apologize, particularly if this > has already been answered. But: >Where's the link? You announce new releases, but no links. > > --Charles --

[REBOL] Excellent REBOLlish Advertising Slogan

2002-02-15 Thread Robbo1Mark
Whilst perusing through an office interiors trade magazine whilst waiting for a meeting to start at work, my company specialises in commercial interior fit out work, I stumbled across this excellent advertising slogan with tremendous REBOL connotations. [ between us, ideas become reality ™ ] Th

[REBOL] Re: timers in Core would be enough imo :-) (was) Re: Re: REBOL multithreading

2002-02-15 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Romano Paolo Tenca wrote: > Hi, Petr > > > And face based mechanism actually can't be used in Core and Command - they > > both don't have face compositing engine. I don't remember correctly, if > > someone from RT already commented this here or not in the past it > > would be probably good

[REBOL] OT: Poetry (Was: PROB, then quit)

2002-02-15 Thread Cassani Mario
Hi all, poets. > Best wishes Hallvard, > > We are like-minded it seems. I started an object browser with the same > format as yours some time ago, which Ammon hopes to include > with his RIDE > IDE for REBOL. One difference between us is that my (poor) > poetry is all in > English. :-\ FYI

[REBOL] read/custom and HTTP HEAD behaviour

2002-02-15 Thread j m
I am trying to query a URL with HTTP HEAD but I get the full HTTP GET instead print read/custom http://www.yahoo.com reduce ['HEAD ] or response: copy "" port: open tcp://www.yahoo.com:80 insert port rejoin [ "GET" newline "host:www.yahoo.com" newline "connection: close" newline newline ] whi

[REBOL] REBOL encryption?

2002-02-15 Thread Alex Liebowitz
I need some way of encoding text in a way such that for any text , it encodes into a value which no other text (or a very negligible amount) does, and from which it is impossible (or nearly so) to extract the original text except by brute force. It looks like this might do the trick: checksum/me