[REBOL] Re: reduce/deep

2003-10-21 Thread Elan
Hi Robert. >> b: a: [a 1 b 2] == [a 1 b 2] >> same? a b == true >> a: b: "xyz" == "xyz" >> d: c: reduce [a b] == ["xyz" "xyz"] >> same? d c == true Robert M. Münch wrote: >On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:33:29 +1000, Anton Rolls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > > >>Use SAME? >> >>a: b: [123] >>sa

[REBOL] Re: Euro and German currency

2003-10-21 Thread Andrew Martin
> Is there supposed to be a special symbol here? > (Not just "DM" ?) > I don't see it here in Outlook. There's only "DM" there. Did you see the special Euro character? It's like a curly capital "e". Andrew J Martin Attendance Officer Speaking in tongues and performing miracles Colenso High Scho

[REBOL] Re: Euro and German currency

2003-10-21 Thread Anton Rolls
Is there supposed to be a special symbol here? (Not just "DM" ?) I don't see it here in Outlook. Anton. > German Mark: 123.456,00 DM -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: reading back checksum/secure

2003-10-21 Thread Ted Serpa
It would seem Carl's Cookbook entry "Strong Authentication Method" could serve as a useful example in this instance. http://www.rebol.net/cookbook/recipes/0019.html Ted - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 4:30 PM Subje

[REBOL] Re: reading back checksum/secure

2003-10-21 Thread SunandaDH
Carlos: > Is it secure to pass a checksum/secure value on a URL > I mean when GET method is used on CGI? Checksum/secure is proof against reverse engineering (given #{DE187642E6C75F60D10F29E52CAB54CDF676870D} you'd have a hard job working it backwards to the original string). But it isn't

[REBOL] Re: reading back checksum/secure

2003-10-21 Thread Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch
the reason for this, is that it protects you from the sysadmin himself. even he can't scan your password (unless he runs a mega-loop hashing and comparing all possible strings against the stored one) which can take hours, days or weeks to break. Which is why you should use long passwords on se

[REBOL] Re: reduce/deep

2003-10-21 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Robert, Robert M. Münch wrote: > > Hi, ahhh forgot about this one. Rebol just has to many words to remember > ;-) But this doesn't seem to work for nested blocks: > Sure it does! > >>>d: reduce [a b] >> > == [[a 1 b 2] [a 1 b 2]] > >>>e: reduce [a b] >> > == [[a 1 b 2] [a 1 b 2]] > >>

[REBOL] Re: reading back checksum/secure

2003-10-21 Thread Carlos Lorenz
Andreas, Maarten Is it secure to pass a checksum/secure value on a URL I mean when GET method is used on CGI? Carlos Em Ter 21 Out 2003 17:10, Andreas Bolka escreveu: > Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 8:42:31 PM, Carlos wrote: > > Considering the following code, how can I get :pwd back in plain > >

[REBOL] Re: reduce/deep

2003-10-21 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Robert M. Münch wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:33:29 +1000, Anton Rolls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >>Use SAME? >> >>a: b: [123] >>same? a b >>;== true > > > Hi, ahhh forgot about this one. Rebol just has to many words to remember > ;-) But this doesn't seem to work for nested blocks

[REBOL] Re: reading back checksum/secure

2003-10-21 Thread Carlos Lorenz
Joel, I got it. That's exactly what I was looking for. The impossibility of getting back what was passed to checksum makes it ideal for login routines Thanks Carlos Em Ter 21 Out 2003 17:11, Joel Neely escreveu: > Hi, Carlos, > > You can't. See below. > > Carlos Lorenz wrote: > > Considering th

[REBOL] Re: reading back checksum/secure

2003-10-21 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Carlos, You can't. See below. Carlos Lorenz wrote: > > Considering the following code, how can I get > :pwd back in plain English? > >>>write %password.txt checksum/secure pwd >> > >>>pwd: read %password.txt >> > > == "ç'ÑFJá$6è§&Ú[/^QØ8^[&" > Check the help for CHECKSUM: >> ? che

[REBOL] Re: Cunning use of [], () & {} in R# and in future? Rebol versions?

2003-10-21 Thread "Robert M. Münch"
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:50:35 +1300, A J Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a/5..10 I like this one. Robert -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: paths & lookups & change

2003-10-21 Thread "Robert M. Münch"
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 03:44:30 +1000, Brett Handley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can sort of, but you may not want to :-) > >>> test: ["Bug Report" 1] > == ["Bug Report" 1] >>> key: "Bug Report" > == "Bug Report" >>> do reduce [to-set-path reduce ['test :key] 1 + test/:key] > == ["Bug Report"

[REBOL] Re: paths & lookups & change

2003-10-21 Thread "Robert M. Münch"
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:30:54 +1000, Anton Rolls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, I see what you're trying to do. > I agree there seems to be missing a > native to set the selected value. Hi, yes correct that's the problem. > We have SELECT to get the value, but > we have nothing to set the val

[REBOL] Re: reduce/deep

2003-10-21 Thread "Robert M. Münch"
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:33:29 +1000, Anton Rolls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use SAME? > > a: b: [123] > same? a b > ;== true Hi, ahhh forgot about this one. Rebol just has to many words to remember ;-) But this doesn't seem to work for nested blocks: >> a: [a 1 b 2] == [a 1 b 2] >> b: [a 1 b

[REBOL] Re: to-number does not work

2003-10-21 Thread "Robert M. Münch"
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:50:54 +1000, Brett Handley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just looking up the public bug tracking system... oops we don't have >>> one! > ... > I also don't see it being a good way to record bug type information. Hi Brett, if you can hold for a few days than you (and oth

[REBOL] Re: Email Delivery Notice

2003-10-21 Thread Julio Cesar Santana
Hi Matt, I never had used Rebol to get e-mail delivery confirmation, but I have made a rule using procmail that adds the header "Disposition-Notification-To:" and it makes this function. Hope that helps. Julio Cesar Santana At 14:22 21/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Does anyone know how to send

[REBOL] Re: reading back checksum/secure

2003-10-21 Thread Maarten Koopmans
You can't. Checksumming (hashing) is a one-way operation > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Carlos Lorenz > Sent: dinsdag 21 oktober 2003 20:43 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] reading back checksum/secure > > > Hello list,

[REBOL] Re: reading back checksum/secure

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Bolka
Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 8:42:31 PM, Carlos wrote: > Considering the following code, how can I get :pwd back in plain > English? >>> pwd: ask "Enter password: " > Enter password: mypass > == "mypass" >>> write %password.txt checksum/secure pwd >>> pwd: read %password.txt > == "ç'ÑFJá$6è§

[REBOL] reading back checksum/secure

2003-10-21 Thread Carlos Lorenz
Hello list, Considering the following code, how can I get :pwd back in plain English? >> pwd: ask "Enter password: " Enter password: mypass == "mypass" >> write %password.txt checksum/secure pwd >> pwd: read %password.txt == "ç'ÑFJá$6è§&Ú[/^QØ8^[&" Thanks Carlos Lorenz -- To unsubscr

[REBOL] Re: $QUERRY_STRING

2003-10-21 Thread Carlos Lorenz
Do you mean system/options/cgi/query-string ? Carlos Em Ter 21 Out 2003 16:15, martin mauchauffee escreveu: > sorry for my english > a search for an equal fonctionality of $QUERY_STRING in PHP -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the su

[REBOL] Email Delivery Notice

2003-10-21 Thread Matt MacDonald
Does anyone know how to send an email through rebol and request a delivery confirmation for it? I know that the tag that tells the email client is embedded in the data section of the email, but I'm not really sure how to manually insert that into a REBOL email. Matt _

[REBOL] $QUERRY_STRING

2003-10-21 Thread martin mauchauffee
sorry for my english a search for an equal fonctionality of $QUERY_STRING in PHP -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Data Drives It

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Johnson
* Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031021 08:52]: > I think that the concept of data-driven code needs to be explored further. Hey Carl, you're the one who wrote it! :-) New paradigm! tj > > -Original Message- > > From: Tim Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesda

[REBOL] Re: Euro and German currency

2003-10-21 Thread Bohdan or Rosemary Lechnowsky
Andrew, Rebol's Currency datatype will accept the following format: >> EUR$123'456,00 == EUR$123456.00 Bohdan "Bo" Lechnowsky Lechnowsky Technical Consulting At 10:12 PM 10/21/03 +1300, you wrote: >Can people living in Europe or Germany confirm whether these formats for >currency look right,

[REBOL] Re: Building an Associate List from a string

2003-10-21 Thread Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch
> -Original Message- > From: Tim Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: Building an Associate List from a string > > > > Hello REBOLS: > > Think Item #4 in the Designers Tip Sheet: > "Data Drives It

[REBOL] Re: Building an Associate List from a string

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Johnson
Hello REBOLS: Thanks for all of the input. Andrew and I got into an OTL thread, which I'll soon route back to the list. FYI: I'm toying with an idea. I have already developed an object approach with uses data structures to generate 'ML code (Andrew's 'ML dialect). It's still in beta (gamma really)

[REBOL] Re: Storing a logical condition

2003-10-21 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Brett, Actually, you remind me of another point which I failed to raise... Brett Handley wrote: > > ... result encourages one to use a form that has the least effect > on the "parent/calling expression" - whether you evaluate the > condition early eg: > condition-result: dummy = 1 >

[REBOL] Re: Euro and German currency

2003-10-21 Thread rebol-list
Hi Andrew, here comes some info from a German. There might be some official guidelines where to put the euro-sign in a currency format, but in real life it doesn't matter if it is in front or behind the amount. Important is the "." as delimiter for thousands and "," as decimal delimiter. Sometim

[REBOL] Re: Euro and German currency

2003-10-21 Thread Carlos Lorenz
Andrew, Here in Brazil the currency notation is just like in Europe, except for the money sign i.e. R$ 125.456,00 Carlos Em Ter 21 Out 2003 07:12, A J Martin escreveu: > Can people living in Europe or Germany confirm whether these formats for > currency look right, please? > > Euro: 123.456,00

[REBOL] Re: Euro and German currency

2003-10-21 Thread SunandaDH
Andrew: > > Euro: 123.456,00 € > German Mark: 123.456,00 DM > US Dollar: $123,456.00 The euro (always supposed to be lowercase and singular as in "I bought six sheep and five fish for ten euro" -- although that doesn't happen in practice) should precede the amount: €123.456,00 with no spac

[REBOL] Re: Euro and German currency

2003-10-21 Thread Arnoux Vincent
Hi, I live in France. 1) I see no reason for putting a point at the "thousand" delimiter: $123,456.00 = 123456.00 € (more or less ;o) ) you can perhaps swap the dot with a comma (depending of Europe areas) 2) The German Mark doesn't exist anymore... (think € !) So I see no point for REBOL as a

[REBOL] Euro and German currency

2003-10-21 Thread A J Martin
Can people living in Europe or Germany confirm whether these formats for currency look right, please? Euro: 123.456,00 € German Mark: 123.456,00 DM US Dollar: $123,456.00 Unfortunately, Rebol doesn't yet understand the above formats: >> 123.456,00€ ** Syntax Error: Invalid decimal -- 123.456,00€

[REBOL] Re: Rebol copy semantics

2003-10-21 Thread Ladislav Mecir
I am interested and I appreciated help from Colin, Pat, or others. The best may be to just send me questions (or suggestions) and I will try to incorporate the answers to the text. Other approaches are possible too. TIA -L > ...and these articles are very valuable even sometimes > (at least for

[REBOL] Re: Building an Associate List from a string

2003-10-21 Thread Carl Read
On 21-Oct-03, Tom Conlin wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tim Johnson wrote: >> Hello REBOLS: >> I need some advice :-) >> I've written a function that converts a delimited string into >> an associative list. >> Code and example console session is below: >> ;; =

[REBOL] Re: Building an Associate List from a string

2003-10-21 Thread Carl Read
On 21-Oct-03, Tim Johnson wrote: > Hello REBOLS: > I need some advice :-) > I've written a function that converts a delimited string into an > associative list. > Code and example console session is below: ;; > = > make-al: function[ {Bu