[REBOL] Re: Interlacing blocks

2004-01-04 Thread Ashley Trüter
> Interlacing blocks: > > a: [a b c] > b: [x y z] > c: [1 2 3] > > => d: [a x 1 b y 2 c z 3] > > Is there a function to do this? I wrote my own, but was curious. nforeach (posted a couple of months back) can do this. Regards, Ashley -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email

[REBOL] Interlacing blocks

2004-01-04 Thread Henrik Mikael Kristensen
Hi Interlacing blocks: a: [a b c] b: [x y z] c: [1 2 3] => d: [a x 1 b y 2 c z 3] Is there a function to do this? I wrote my own, but was curious. -- Regards, Henrik Mikael Kristensen -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-04 Thread Henrik Mikael Kristensen
Jason Cunliffe wrote: > Welcome Anthony! > > my advice: > Start *very simple* using Rebol/Core ..and play interactively as much as > possible. Yes, the console is very important in the step towards learning new things and how commands behave. I build programs in small chunks at a time on the c

[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-04 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Welcome Anthony! my advice: Start *very simple* using Rebol/Core ..and play interactively as much as possible. Rebol is very simple but also can be very sophisticated. It is essential you learn to handle the basics of creating and navigating Rebol blocks and series. They are quite unique in prog

[REBOL] understanding rebol

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony Morford
i am just beginning working with rebol. and i know very little of programming. im sure that taking a rebol workshop would make understanding it alot easier but i decide to go the cheaper, more personal, route - reading the manual. ive read it once through and still lack the understanding to make a

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-04 Thread Jason Cunliffe
..hmm why not just rebolforum.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-04 Thread Ashley Trüter
> Now I would appreciate some feedback on a name for the forum... All reasonable, although I personally would avoid "users" (connotation with drugs) and rebolyell (which could get confused for "Rebel Yell!" - don't mention the war! ;) ). IMHO rebolchat conveys the right tone (not as formal as

[REBOL] Re: sort/scramble

2004-01-04 Thread Hallvard Ystad
Dixit Joel Neely (00.11 05.01.2004): >[...] >adjacent elements are now different. Finally, for your example: > > example: [[4 1 7 "nicsrg" 5 6 3 8 2 9] [3 1 2 "sicrtg" 9 8 4 7 6 5] > [9 3 7 "iscgtn" 6 2 8 5 4 1] [1 3 8 "inctrg" 5 2 9 4 6 7] > [9 6 5 "ngsirt" 8 2 1 3 7 4]

[REBOL] Re: sort/scramble

2004-01-04 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Hallvard, To ensure "unsorted", first sort, then interleave second and first halves. (Assuming you have enough distinct values that moving halfway through the sorted order gives you a different value.) Hallvard Ystad wrote: > > I have a block with, say 10 blocks inside it. Each block has m

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-04 Thread Defiant Mail
Sorry about the typo, didn't even see it until you pointed it out. rebolcommuntiy.com But at least you pointed out that the name is easily misspelled. Strike that one off the list. : ) -Mj. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 0

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-04 Thread Jason Cunliffe
> http://evaluation.express.rebol.net/projects/view1.3/ ah thanks :-) It's a start, but yes that yikes 1995 HTML really needs to be modernized asap with semantic tags throughout as all the blogging tools do. Plus regular tags and other aids. In fact with even a *minimal* tweak, an embedded re

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-04 Thread SunandaDH
Jason: > Any ideas about how to do the above? Take a look at: http://evaluation.express.rebol.net/projects/view1.3/ which is an entire Altme world (the REBOL-View world, for discussing current View betas) exported to HTML (Except, of course the user and private groups). The strengths and wea

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-04 Thread SunandaDH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > rebolusers.com > reboltalk.com > rebolyell.com > rebolchat.com > rebolcomminity.com Any of those would be fine by me -- with the exception of the misspelled one, Sunanda. -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe a

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-04 Thread Jason Cunliffe
AltMe is very useful but two big problems need solving: 1. Off the Google radar Someone needs to archive AltME REBOL discussion in an intelligent Google friendly manner. AltME does export HTML, but perhaps its needs better RDF-type tagging embedded so message\syndication, indexing and search can

[REBOL] Re: Why no Forum?

2004-01-04 Thread Tim Johnson
* Defiant Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040103 15:42]: > I was wondering why a mail list instead of a forum? > > It would make things so much easier just to enter a search than to read through > hundreds of archived mail's > for a quick answer, furthermore it can send e-mails notifying users of new

[REBOL] Re: Center object & screen res.

2004-01-04 Thread Defiant Mail
Its Snowing Here is Chicago b... - Original Message - From: "Carl Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 1:53 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Center object & screen res. > > On 05-Jan-04, Defiant Mail wrote: > > > Carl Your the bomb! > > With the

[REBOL] Re: sort/scramble

2004-01-04 Thread Hallvard Ystad
Dixit Joel Neely (03.06 04.01.2004): >How about this: > > >> random [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9] > == [8 9 3 4 2 1 7 6 0 5] Ah, of course. I didn't think about the fact that 'random takes anything as an argument... >Can you provide a little more detail on your requirements? Yes. Especially si

[REBOL] Re: Center object & screen res.

2004-01-04 Thread Carl Read
On 05-Jan-04, Defiant Mail wrote: > Carl Your the bomb! > With the small adjustment of removing the 200x100 (to allow for full > screenage) Ah - a bit of test code left in there. :) It is very, very hot in front of a computer in New Zealand at the moment... -- Carl Read -- To unsubscribe f

[REBOL] Forum Name

2004-01-04 Thread Defiant Mail
I have decided to set up a forum, if it takes off, great! if it does not Im only out $6.00 for the domain name. Now I would appreciate some feedback on a name for the forum... Here are a few ideas: rebolusers.com reboltalk.com rebolyell.com rebolchat.com rebolcomminity.com After the name is pu

[REBOL] Re: Why no Forum?

2004-01-04 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Maryjane, DM> I was wondering why a mail list instead of a forum? Carl Read said it best ("just the way it panned out"). The REBOLForces forums didn't see much traffic when it was up, compared to the ML, but I can't say why. I use AltME and IOS heavily. They aren't "public access" channels,

[REBOL] Linguistic programs using Rebol

2004-01-04 Thread Reboler
Hi Folks!! First of All, Happy New Year Is there anybody that developed text summarization programs with rebol (TF-ISF)? or clustering programs ? I mean, because its resources for parsing are pretty handy to do this.. I'm asking just in case. Thanks in advance. Best Regards!, --DJ -- To

[REBOL] Re: accessing objects dynamic paths

2004-01-04 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi, > >> tstring: "password/jj" > == "password/jj" > >> tstring: to-path tstring > == password/jj There are many issues about this expression. 1) p: to-path "a/b" creates a path composed of a single item which is itself th path a/b. You can verify this with this: length? :p first

[REBOL] Re: Center object & screen res.

2004-01-04 Thread Andreas Bolka
Sunday, January 4, 2004, 1:01:23 PM, Defiant wrote: > With the small adjustment of removing the 200x100 (to allow for full > screenage) it works perfectly and its consistent in all screen resolutions. > This information would be an ideal ( how to ) forum entry! ; ) There is still the REBOL co

[REBOL] Re: Why no Forum? [OT]

2004-01-04 Thread Andreas Bolka
Sunday, January 4, 2004, 2:51:10 AM, Defiant wrote: > The great thing about forums is the ability to make advanced > searches At least my email client is quite capable of doing quite advanced searches, and once you are able to access a standardized repres of emails (e.g. mbox) you are only limi

[REBOL] Re: accessing objects dynamic paths

2004-01-04 Thread Stan Silver
I had the same problem with dynamic blocks, so I fired up the console ; ; A normal path ; >> data: [one 1 two 2] == [one 1 two 2] >> data/one == 1 ; ; A dynamic path. This path doesn't work. The path doesn't have context. ; >> p: to-path "data/one" == data/one >> p ** Internal Error: **

[REBOL] accessing objects dynamic paths

2004-01-04 Thread bry
when you convert a string path to an actual path and attempt to access an object with it: example: >> password: make object! [jj: ["bryan" "0"]] >> password/jj == ["bryan" "0"] >> tstring: "password/jj" == "password/jj" >> tstring: to-path tstring == password/jj >> tstring ** Internal Error: **

[REBOL] Re: Center object & screen res.

2004-01-04 Thread SunandaDH
> This information would be an ideal ( how to ) forum entry! ; ) In the (current) absence of a fully-fledged forum, it could just as well be a "how-to" in the REBOL Script Library, eg: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/search.r?filter=type-how-to Though it's not a free-for-all forum,

[REBOL] Re: Center object & screen res.

2004-01-04 Thread Defiant Mail
Carl Your the bomb! With the small adjustment of removing the 200x100 (to allow for full screenage) it works perfectly and its consistent in all screen resolutions. This information would be an ideal ( how to ) forum entry! ; ) Rebol[] screen-size: system/view/screen-face/size view center-face

[REBOL] Re: Center object & screen res.

2004-01-04 Thread Carl Read
On 04-Jan-04, Defiant Mail wrote: > Tried the below but the button shows up at default (25x25) > Rebol[] > view center-face layout [ > size system/view/screen-face/size > button "OK" [unview]] This I think does what you want... screen-size: 200x100 ;system/view/screen-face/size view center-f

[REBOL] [io] open/direct and skip

2004-01-04 Thread Ashley Trüter
Given that 'skip does not work with open/binary/direct, I tried using it with open/direct as follows: >> pos: 1 == 1 >> file: open/direct %test.dat >> file: skip file pos >> first file ** Script Error: Out of range or past end ** Near: first file but after some experimenting [Win2000] f