[REBOL] Re: Gregg's Article in OnLamp

2003-11-03 Thread A J Martin
rebOldes wrote: > YES... I would appreciate it as well.. and #"," character as a word as well so I could use it in my dialect. It would be good to send it to the feedback again. And what would you use comma (,) for? Andrew J Martin Speaking in tongues and performing miracles. ICQ: 26227169 http:

[REBOL] Re: markup datatype

2003-11-03 Thread A J Martin
Bryan wrote: > http://www.xmldatabases.org/WK/blog/663?t=item > > a wishlist by Kimbro Staken about what he wants a language to be able to do with xml. Rebol is in some ways pretty close to this. In other ways very far off. In some ways, .NET is like this. :) XML is to become a firstclass datatyp

[REBOL] Re: lost the case ...

2003-11-03 Thread Tim Johnson
I'm not going to quote anyone here, because I'm taking a different attack than Pekr did - but it is worthwhile to take the same subject line. Given the context for which I generally use rebol - web programming - it is the most productive programming language that I have ever used. And I know wher

[REBOL] Re: lost the case ...

2003-11-03 Thread Will Arp
Hi Pekr, On 4-nov-03, at 00:34, Petr Krenzelok wrote: > - VID is 70 - 80% complete, which means it pushes ppl to adapt styles. > - styles don't provide proper encapsulation - why such thing as caret > position of certain face is not simply a property of face object ... > - styles are inconsisten

[REBOL] Re: lost the case ...

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Tretter
Pekr, I totally agree with the frustration. However, RT's mission is not to first create a language. I was also very confused over the developer updates and thinking it would be published eash month and that never happened. I never did look at VID as anymore than a sample of what we can do. I

[REBOL] lost the case ...

2003-11-03 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Hi, today I lost second person who started with rebol some few months ago. Sorry if you will find my comments off-topic, or negative, but I can't resist. And what is more - I think current situation deserves some criticism. Maybe you will tell me you don't know how my lamenting can help rebol

[REBOL] Re: Rugby Question

2003-11-03 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Pretending your somebody else's ip address. Using Ip addresses is very waek, security-wise. --Maarten > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Matt MacDonald > Sent: maandag 3 november 2003 21:53 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re

[REBOL] Re: Basic Script Calling Command

2003-11-03 Thread Carlos Lorenz
Wow! How come I have never thought about this before? Thanks Anton Carlos Em Quinta 30 Outubro 2003 21:59, Anton Rolls escreveu: > Ah a new linux guy. > You may want to put these lines in your > user.r for more familiar file system navigation: > > cd: :change-dir > ls: :list-dir >

[REBOL] Re: Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch
Hi Bruno, I'm sorry If I have induced you into error, but I did not understand the question in the proper way... If you want to map a series of values to-from, then liquid isn't really the thing to use... I thought you meant to keep a synchronisation between to entities... so that a change

[REBOL] Re: Rugby Question

2003-11-03 Thread Matt MacDonald
What do you mean spoofing? -- Hi Matt, >Sorry, I had to put this problem aside for a minute. Ok Maarten, I >followed >your advise to keep a running list of the server ports when I connect to >them, that makes sense, but I'm still not following how the

[REBOL] Re: Rugby Question

2003-11-03 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Hi Matt, > Sorry, I had to put this problem aside for a minute. Ok Maarten, I > followed > your advise to keep a running list of the server ports when I connect to > them, that makes sense, but I'm still not following how the server can > keep > track of the clients. Basically I need to do this

[REBOL] Re: Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread Christian Ensel
Hi Bruno, doing it in the SELECT-way is nice but you should consider using it with the /SKIP-refinement. Without this you may end up with surprising results if one value may occur in value-1 and value-2 position as in ; >> that's-life: [cats birds cats birds i

[REBOL] Re: Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hello. > I have 2 values that would be mapped to each other. What I need to do is > to be able to find the first valeu by searching for the ceond and locate > the second by searching for the first. I did come up with solutions to > that but I am not satisfied with any of the solutions. Is there

[REBOL] Re: Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread Bruno G. Albuquerque
Hello Joel. That's what I call a complete explanation. Thanks! I decided to use the interleaved values option. The reason I need something like what I described is that I am creating a HTTP Proxy using Rebol (that will eventually evolve into an HTTP Tunnel application). The mapping is used to ma

[REBOL] Re: Rugby Question

2003-11-03 Thread Matt MacDonald
Sorry, I had to put this problem aside for a minute. Ok Maarten, I followed your advise to keep a running list of the server ports when I connect to them, that makes sense, but I'm still not following how the server can keep track of the clients. Basically I need to do this on the server: al

[REBOL] Re: Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Bruno, I know of no way to avoid some duplication. See below. Bruno G. Albuquerque wrote: > > I have 2 values that would be mapped to each other. What I need to do is > to be able to find the first valeu by searching for the ceond and locate > the second by searching for the first. I did c

[REBOL] Re: Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread Bruno G. Albuquerque
Hello Arie. Thanks but this is not what I was looking for. Patrick nailed it though (although his solution results in data duplication). See my previous email. -Bruno Arie van Wingerden disse: > Hi bruno, > > do you mean something like the ALIAS function? > http://www.rebol.com/docs/words/walia

[REBOL] Re: Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread Bruno G. Albuquerque
Hello Patrick. Thanks! This works great (although there is data duplication). It even works in a case like this: >> firstvalue:1 == 1 >> secondvalue: 2 == 2 >> thirdvalue: 3 == 3 >> fourthvalue: 4 == 4 >> test: [ 1 2 1 3 4 3 ] == [1 2 1 3 4 3] >> select teste 1 == 2 >> select teste 2 == 1 >> sel

[REBOL] Re: Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread Arie van Wingerden
Hi bruno, do you mean something like the ALIAS function? http://www.rebol.com/docs/words/walias.html If not, can you supply some code, an example? Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Arie van Wingerden http://home.zonnet.nl/rebolution ICQ 343101686 - Original Message -

[REBOL] Re: Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread patrick.philipot
Hi Bruno, You can use 'select with a little trick >> firstvalue: 1 == 1 >> secondvalue: 2 == 2 >> searchblock: reduce [firstvalue secondvalue firstvalue] == [1 2 1] >> select searchblock firstvalue == 2 >> select searchblock secondvalue == 1 >> select searchblock firstvalue == 2 >> select search

[REBOL] Re: Gregg's Article in OnLamp

2003-11-03 Thread Tom Conlin
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Gregg Irwin wrote: > > Hi Ged, > > GB> REBOL in a Nutshell would be a great thing to have. > > I agree. Let O'Reilly know. If we *all* let them know we want a great > O'Reilly REBOL book, maybe it'll shake 'em up a little. :) > > -- Gregg Agreed I would love a nutshell book,

[REBOL] Checking for broken connections

2003-11-03 Thread Matt MacDonald
Ok, I asked this question a while ago and got some good answers, but a scenario has risen that I wasn't counting on before, and the previous solution doesn't work. Suppose you have a sever running: s: open/lines/no-wait tcp://:8000 v: first s And a client: c: open/lines/no-wait tcp://ip-addres

[REBOL] Re: Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch
liquid. that is its main purpose. it is also linked to vid via liquid-vid. development has slown down for a few weeks, but it'll pick up. http://www.rebol.it/~steel a working version and some documentation can be found here: http://www.rebol.it/~steel for an understanding of liquid itself, you

[REBOL] Bidirectional value mapping.

2003-11-03 Thread Bruno G. Albuquerque
Hello. I have 2 values that would be mapped to each other. What I need to do is to be able to find the first valeu by searching for the ceond and locate the second by searching for the first. I did come up with solutions to that but I am not satisfied with any of the solutions. Is there a standar

[REBOL] Re: Gregg's Article in OnLamp

2003-11-03 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Ged, GB> REBOL in a Nutshell would be a great thing to have. I agree. Let O'Reilly know. If we *all* let them know we want a great O'Reilly REBOL book, maybe it'll shake 'em up a little. :) -- Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PRO

[REBOL] Re: markup datatype

2003-11-03 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Brett, BH> From what I see his example treats the xml strings as a tree of nodes and BH> attibutes with fairly simple operations applied to the trees. I would expect BH> it to be feasible and not too difficult to program as a dialect in REBOL. BH> The language part would be the easy bit for R

[REBOL] Re: File writing issue

2003-11-03 Thread Matt MacDonald
Sorry for the lack of clarity. Basically, I am implementing a secure messaging system. This system has 3 components: client software, a messaging server, and a file server. The messaging server handles most of the database access of storing and retrieving the messages. The file server is o

[REBOL] Re: Why I don't need get-word here!

2003-11-03 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
> Indeed, it looks like lit-words are still word-active... Hmm, do > you see any reason for this? Backward compatibility? --- Ciao Romano -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: Gregg's Article in OnLamp

2003-11-03 Thread rebOldes
Hello Martin, Friday, October 31, 2003, 11:11:32 PM, you wrote: AJM> Gregg wrote: >> To me, one of REBOL's greatest strengths is the ability to use words-- AJM> Yes, I agree. I'd like Rebol to be more versatile in this area. I'm sure AJM> with improvements to the current parser in Rebol, then w

[REBOL] Re: Why I don't need get-word here!

2003-11-03 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Romano, On Monday, November 3, 2003, 3:05:42 PM, you wrote: RPT> It seems to me that also the lit-word! datatypehas the same behaviour: Indeed, it looks like lit-words are still word-active... Hmm, do you see any reason for this? Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECT

[REBOL] Re: Why I don't need get-word here!

2003-11-03 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Gabriele, > while > word > does not always yield the same result as using GET. In the recent > versions of REBOL the only datatypes for which there is a > difference are the ones enclosed in the ANY-FUNCTION! pseudo type. It seems to me that also the lit-word! datatypehas the sa

[REBOL] Re: markup datatype

2003-11-03 Thread bryan
>> In other ways very far off. >This particular example does not seem too far off for REBOL at all :^) The thing that made me say far off was the xpath usage against the xml inside the variables. -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe a

[REBOL] Re: Gregg's Article in OnLamp

2003-11-03 Thread Ged Byrne
> Feel free to use the comment section for the article > to critique and > discuss these kinds of ideas. Hopefully there will > be enough interest > to warrant O'Reilly publishing more articles on > REBOL. > > -- Gregg REBOL in a Nutshell would be a great thing to have.

[REBOL] Re: markup datatype

2003-11-03 Thread Brett Handley
> http://www.xmldatabases.org/WK/blog/663?t=item > > a wishlist by Kimbro Staken about what he wants a language to be able to > do with xml. Rebol is in some ways pretty close to this. Yes. > In other ways very far off. This particular example does not seem too far off for REBOL at all :^) >F

[REBOL] getting headers of http response

2003-11-03 Thread bryan
So if one opens a http address, is there first of all a way to only return a specific header, I suppose this can be done via either skip or custom refinements, but which ones, second of all if I do this: Locals: probe a/locals ; a being the name of my open port State: probe a/state I understand

[REBOL] markup datatype

2003-11-03 Thread bryan
http://www.xmldatabases.org/WK/blog/663?t=item a wishlist by Kimbro Staken about what he wants a language to be able to do with xml. Rebol is in some ways pretty close to this. In other ways very far off. -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

[REBOL] Re: Why I don't need get-word here!

2003-11-03 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Patrick, On Sunday, November 2, 2003, 6:58:39 PM, you wrote: PP> So my questions are: PP> - Do I need the get-word? No, you don't in this case. PP> - Is there a difference in the result? It's the same, there's no difference. PP> two syntaxes, the same results, what am I missing ? Basical