[REBOL] Re: Help me, Obi Reb Kenobi, you're my only hope!

2002-09-01 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Ladislav and Gabriele, > Your IS-REALLY-ERROR? function works for simple code like above, but, AFAIK, > we cannot handle all possible cases, like e.g.: > > is-really-error? [1 first block2] ; == true > > (until errors will be "first class"). You are right about first class, but i think th

[REBOL] Re: Help me, Obi Reb Kenobi, you're my only hope!

2002-09-01 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Ladislav, On Sunday, September 1, 2002, 8:28:22 PM, you wrote: LM> It looks to me, that the "first class error" and the "legal vs. illegal LM> error" distinction are two sides of the same coin. Indeed. We cannot use errors at all, only disarm them. So, probably we can state that

[REBOL] Re: RFC: Rebol Framework

2002-09-01 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Robert M. Muench wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>On Behalf Of Robert M. Muench >>Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 3:07 PM >>To: Rebollist >>Subject: [REBOL] RFC: Rebol Framework >> >> > >Hi, just a short update: I got most of the fra

[REBOL] Re: Help me, Obi Reb Kenobi, you're my only hope!

2002-09-01 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi again, LM> The difference is, that in this case the result of the (first block2) LM> expression evaluation "legally" exists, that is why I call it a "legal" LM> error. <> I see. I'd more likely have errors as first class, instead of a DEFAULT function able to make the distinction. A

[REBOL] Re: Help me, Obi Reb Kenobi, you're my only hope!

2002-09-01 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Ladislav, On Sunday, September 1, 2002, 1:23:35 PM, you wrote: LM> The difference is, that in this case the result of the (first block2) LM> expression evaluation "legally" exists, that is why I call it a "legal" LM> error. I see. I'd more likely have errors as first class, instead of a D

[REBOL] Re: help needed from graphics GURUS ?

2002-09-01 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Gregg, On Sunday, September 1, 2002, 6:09:39 PM, you wrote: GI> platform (anywhere TTF fonts are used), I'd be willing to spend a little GI> time on it if people feel there is a lot of vale to be had from it. I.e. Well Gregg, if you get to parsing TTFs, there is a little possibility

[REBOL] Re: RFC: Rebol Framework

2002-09-01 Thread Robert M. Muench
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Robert M. Muench > Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 3:07 PM > To: Rebollist > Subject: [REBOL] RFC: Rebol Framework Hi, just a short update: I got most of the framework running. I won't call it a fra

[REBOL] Re: arghh!@#$ => HELP please with http upload

2002-09-01 Thread Andreas Bolka
Sunday, September 1, 2002, 3:52:33 AM, Jason wrote: > arghh!@#$ =>> HELP.. > Please, does anyone have a tested, working example of http upload > script in REBOL with its HTML form? For a very basic example, use the following two things: - one cgi handling the HTTP POST - a HTML containing the

[REBOL] Re: help needed from graphics GURUS ?

2002-09-01 Thread Gregg Irwin
<< Last night I looked at the raw binary on a couple of fonts. The name is in there, but I wasn't readily able to identify a constant location nor a bracketing pair of words or symbols that would make parsing easy. (It wasn't obvious *to me*, at least.) >> The format is available (wotsit has a li

[REBOL] Re: help needed from graphics GURUS ?

2002-09-01 Thread Gregg Irwin
<< OK, I sucked, and saw disappointment. When I peeked at the \windows\fonts directory earlier, I had forgotten that the folder view was one of Windows fancy folders. >> I think Explorer, in order to display the font names as if they were the actual file names, parses the files (takes a lon

[REBOL] Re: ANN: Planetary defense

2002-09-01 Thread Francesco De Napoli
Hello Anton On 31-Ago-02, Anton wrote: > rebol.exe ; the latest beta 1.2.8.3.1 > rebol12531.exe ; the latest full 1.2.5.3.1 Thank a lot for this trick, I will try later Regards -- "Where did you get all those facts!?!" -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email

[REBOL] Re: arghh!@#$ => HELP please with http upload

2002-09-01 Thread Jason Cunliffe
> I was thinking of writing a Rebol/zine article to show > this is done. > > I guess I'd better start writing ... Well Graham That would be great. I look forward to it. ...I was thinking of writing one too, when I finally get it working to my satisfaction ;-) cheers ./Jason -- To unsubscribe

[REBOL] Re: simple as that

2002-09-01 Thread Francesco De Napoli
Hello Gabriele On 31-Ago-02, Gabriele Santilli wrote: > >> Yep! I'm a very clever guy :P But I don't know how to retrive this >> information :( > > Hmm... are you talking about SYSTEM/SCRIPT/PATH? It seems to me pretty good, even if it does not work as we wish with Amiga's Logical Device (assig

[REBOL] Re: Help me, Obi Reb Kenobi, you're my only hope!

2002-09-01 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Gabriele and all, LM> I am still curious, if many Rebol users prefer to allow UNSET! valued LM> expressions (eventually why?). <> There's no reason to have them, and that's just likely to be an implementation issue with the current interpreter (it needs unset! for unset words, and once yo

[REBOL] Re: help needed from graphics GURUS ?

2002-09-01 Thread G. Scott Jones
Hi, Gabriele, From: "Gabriele Santilli" > Maybe we could just look into the TTF file to > extract its real name. Last night I looked at the raw binary on a couple of fonts. The name is in there, but I wasn't readily able to identify a constant location nor a bracketing pair of words or symbo

[REBOL] Re: help needed from graphics GURUS ?

2002-09-01 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Scott, On Sunday, September 1, 2002, 5:06:36 AM, you wrote: GSJ> mapping table or GDI access ... or ... someone needs to save me from myself. GSJ> Again! Maybe we could just look into the TTF file to extract its real name. (Are TTF specs available?) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Sa

[REBOL] Re: Event transparent faces

2002-09-01 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Gregg, On Saturday, August 31, 2002, 8:41:59 PM, you wrote: GI> A partial transparency causing 50% event firing? :) I assume Holger was referring to 100% transparent pixels. ;-) GI> Actually, I suppose that could probably work! Indeed, it could be made to do event "filters", but it woul

[REBOL] Re: Help me, Obi Reb Kenobi, you're my only hope!

2002-09-01 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Ladislav, On Saturday, August 31, 2002, 8:28:43 PM, you wrote: LM> I am still curious, if many Rebol users prefer to allow UNSET! valued LM> expressions (eventually why?). There's no reason to have them, and that's just likely to be an implementation issue with the current interpreter (it

[REBOL] Re: InformIT.com Articles Introduction to Waterâ„¢ A New Native Web Services

2002-09-01 Thread Robert M. Muench
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Gregg Irwin > Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 8:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: InformIT.com Articles Introduction to > WaterT A New Native Web Services > Also, Robert, I stil

[REBOL] Re: A REBOL Framework

2002-09-01 Thread Robert M. Muench
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Gerard Cote > Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 11:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: A REBOL Framework was - Re: InformIT.com > Articles Intro... > I already read with interst the

[REBOL] Re: arghh!@#$ => HELP please with http upload

2002-09-01 Thread Graham Chiu
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 21:52:33 -0400 "Jason Cunliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please, does anyone have a tested, working example of >http upload script in >REBOL with its HTML form? If so please can you can send Hi Jason, I was thinking of writing a Rebol/zine article to show this is don