[REBOL] What?

2002-04-24 Thread Ammon Johnson
Hi, I just made an incredible discovery! I was looking for the function to tell me what the current directory is, I thought that it was what-dir?, but apparently not so I did the usual query of the build in help: ? What USAGE: WHAT DESCRIPTION: Prints a list of

[REBOL] general stuff about Soap

2002-04-24 Thread Bryan Rasmussen
I was thinking that this conversation on http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Apr/0233.html might be of general interest in this group considering the conversation regarding SOAP that's been going on in the last couple days. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to

[REBOL] Re: ANN: new file on my reb

2002-04-24 Thread Cyphre
Hi Bolek, Nice...If you want to enhance your spanish vocabulary have a look at desktop/sites/cyphre/translator.r or http://www.rebol.cz/~cyphre/slovnik.r . Translator works with 5 other languages and recognizes about 30 words of each language but you need to be on-line while

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-24 Thread Anton
Interesting idea Rishi, but I don't really like it. I am sure I would go mad trying to distinguish single or double colons everywhere. I think it would replace one type of hard-to-detect bug with another. (ie. accidentally writing only one colon.) The way rebol is at the moment is explicit and

[REBOL] Re: money datatype

2002-04-24 Thread Brett Handley
Thanks Gregg and Anton, Shows how much I've used this feature so far! :^) Thanks for your help. I shall RTxM again ! Brett. - Original Message - From: Anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:23 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: money datatype first

[REBOL] Re: Google + SOAP

2002-04-24 Thread Allen Kamp
Gabriele, Nenad let get this project running on Elite or Developer. We can collate resources and contributions there. Cheers, Allen K - Original Message - From: Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Maarten Koopmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:22 AM Subject:

[REBOL] New Document (CGI)

2002-04-24 Thread Ammon Johnson
Hi, I am playing with some CGI I have a time consuming script that happens in the background I want to let the user know something is happening, but when it is done I want to send the user a fresh page get rid of the notification stuff. Has anyone here done anything similar?

[REBOL] Re: Linux fonts

2002-04-24 Thread Cyphre
Hi Nicolas and Didier, I'm not sure if I remember but have look at: http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m17310.html I hope this could solve your problem... regards Cyphre - Original Message - From: Nicolas Verscheure [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 23,

[REBOL] Re: ANN: new file on my reb

2002-04-24 Thread X
OK Cyphre, I know your translator but I'm not always online. And trying to download all words using web-interface is really tricky - most words are less than 10 chars but each word comes with some big HTML garbage so 30 words can be something like 300MB of data. And I need some list of words

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-24 Thread Carl Read
On 24-Apr-02, Rishi Oswal wrote: Using the :: shortcut in a global context would be the same as using a :. The disadvantage I see is that it adds another thing to the language.. But consider that now we could stop using the /local keyword, reduce bugs, and use it consistently everywhere,

[REBOL] Re: Converting Hex value to String

2002-04-24 Thread Nenad Rakocevic
Mark Chang wrote: I have a HEX value a: #{096A6F6273747265657403636F6D} if I use to-string a result is ^-jobstreet^Ccom. That is NOT what I want. what I want is to convert to b: 096A6F6273747265657403636F6D Sound easy but could not find a simple way to

[REBOL] Re: Google + SOAP

2002-04-24 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Nenad Rakocevic wrote: I can help with the code, but it seems to me that's a little bit premature to jump in the inplementation without a deeper and more complete analyse. Coding is the easiest part in this kind of project. Let's try to first get some consistent and clear vision for every

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-24 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Rishi, Rishi One part of REBOL that can feel odd is when i have to define local variables of a function in the first block of the function. I find it a bit annoying to have to add new variables to the list for every little local variable I use. In addition, I feel it clutters up the first

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-24 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Rishi, My uninformed $0.02... (Note that I try to make an alternative suggestion at the end of my discussion. I'd be interested in feedback on that idea!) The main root problem I have with your suggestion is that it seems to make an assumption about REBOL that I do not believe to be true

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-24 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
myfunc: func [][ localvar:: $25 myinnerfunc: func [][ innerlocal:: $10 print localvar ; prints $25 ] print innerlocal; error! ] print localvar ; error! using the :: for local var will make it more convienient to create local vars (which i use all the time over global

[REBOL] Re: to pair! bug

2002-04-24 Thread Allen Kamp
- Original Message - From: Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Romano Paolo Tenca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:19 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: to pair! bug Hi Romano, On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 10:00:54 AM, you wrote: Once Jeff wrote something like: this

[REBOL] Re: Converting Hex value to String

2002-04-24 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Mark, a: #{096A6F6273747265657403636F6D} == #{096A6F6273747265657403636F6D} copy at head remove back tail mold a 3 == 096A6F6273747265657403636F6D Simple? You be the judge! ;-) -jn- Mark Chang wrote: I have a HEX value a: #{096A6F6273747265657403636F6D}

[REBOL] VNC tunnel over Rugby

2002-04-24 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Hey all, Just finishing every adminstrator's nightmare: a Rugby (aka http based) TCP tunnel. So you can export anything - From a network that allows you to browse (for example the VNC server on your corporate desktop) - To a machine that can act a a HTTP server (for example the VNC client at

[REBOL] Re: VNC tunnel over Rugby

2002-04-24 Thread Gregg Irwin
hi Maarten, Just finishing every adminstrator's nightmare: a Rugby (aka http based) TCP tunnel. So you can export anything Ooooh. So I wouldn't have to fire up terminal services that sometimes leaves a console session hanging around and confuses things to no end because the startup loads

[REBOL] How to view presentation dialect without Rebol

2002-04-24 Thread Robert M. Muench
Hi, I have made a presentation about IOS with the presentation dialect. Now I want to provide this presentation to others that don't have Rebol in use and I would like to include it on our Web-Page and promotion CD-Roms. Any idea how I can do this? Would it be possible to write a PDF with

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-24 Thread Mat Bettinson
Hello Gregg, GI UNFREEZE context GI extend context GI FREEZE context Actually it would have felt a bit more intuitive for me to actually specify variables that were global, and not mention variables that are local specifically. If only because the way I code that would

[REBOL] Re: VNC tunnel over Rugby

2002-04-24 Thread Robert M. Muench
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Maarten Koopmans Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] VNC tunnel over Rugby Just finishing every adminstrator's nightmare: a Rugby (aka http based) TCP

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-24 Thread Rishi Oswal
--- Carl Read wrote: I like the idea and the syntax, but what happens with the likes of this... a: 10 a:: 20 a: 30 Does that produce an 'a in both the global and local context? And if so, does the third expression above change the local or global value, or both?

[REBOL] Re: Google + SOAP

2002-04-24 Thread Robert M. Muench
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nenad Rakocevic Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Re: Google + SOAP Soap is a protocol, so i prefer write it like this : google: read

[REBOL] Re: REBOL thought for the day.

2002-04-24 Thread Jason Cunliffe
For me, giving instructions to the REBOL virtual machine is a more interesting concept. Brett. I like it :-) Brett Thanks for open up this thought today ./Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the

[REBOL] Re: VNC tunnel over Rugby

2002-04-24 Thread Maarten Koopmans
OK, here it goes, albeit a rough version Here' what to do: - Put the latest rugby.r and vnc-tunnel.r in one directory on client and server. - Start a vnc server on your desktop inside your corporate network. - Start the vnc-tunnel.r in your rebol console on the viewing side. Type

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-24 Thread Rishi Oswal
here is another possible brainstorming idea for int/adv users without changing things for beginners. REBOL [] globvar1: $1000 globvar2: $ myfunc: func [/global globvar1] [ localvar: $25 print globvar1 print globvar2 ; error myinnerfunc: func [/global

[REBOL] Klez.H Virus

2002-04-24 Thread Ryan Cole
Hi List, It seems that some hacker using the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] has hijacked Sterling's and my email addresses to send out the Klez.H virus and maybe others. The hacker likely obtained our addresses from list archives. Furtuneately my computers configuration is immune. Klez.H is

[REBOL] Re: Google + SOAP

2002-04-24 Thread Graham Chiu
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:43:20 +0200 Nenad Rakocevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: google: read soap://api.google.com/GoogleSeach google/doGoogleSearch [ key q ... ] google/doSpellingSuggestion [ .. ] google/goGetCachedPage [ .. ] Well, it's simple and clean, i like it. I would like to hear

[REBOL] Re: to pair! bug

2002-04-24 Thread Holger Kruse
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:55:56PM +0200, Gabriele Santilli wrote: Once Jeff wrote something like: this is a puzzle for you: what is to-none useful for?. I was never able to solve the puzzle. I am not aware of that puzzle, or what Jeff had in mind, but here is my guess: it lets you add code to

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-24 Thread Holger Kruse
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:08:15PM -0700, Rishi Oswal wrote: One part of REBOL that can feel odd is when i have to define local variables of a function in the first block of the function. I find it a bit annoying to have to add new variables to the list for every little local variable I use.

[REBOL] Re: New Document (CGI)

2002-04-24 Thread Cybarite
Ammon, Not as pretty as you might want but you can use the html meta tag to refresh the page . browser sends request to CGI script ... say script is %long-running-thing.r . %long-running-thing.r sends page to browser with message about process in progress . this page includes META

[REBOL] Re: How to view presentation dialect without Rebol

2002-04-24 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Robert, Hi, I have made a presentation about IOS with the presentation dialect. Now I want to provide this presentation to others that don't have Rebol in use and I would like to include it on our Web-Page and promotion CD-Roms. Any idea how I can do this? Would it be possible to write a PDF

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-24 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Rishi, *Syntactically backwards compatible with rebol I'm relatively new to REBOL (8 months or so now) but I've learned that Carl and Holger think about these kinds of things very carefully. As Carl has said, lexical space is very tight in REBOL because of the high number of native

[REBOL] Re: What?

2002-04-24 Thread Charles
That's pretty neat indeed. However, to get the current directory is just 'what-dir with no question mark. (In case you haven't found it yet ;) I just made an incredible discovery! I was looking for the function to tell me what the current directory is, I thought that it was what-dir?,