[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-05 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Cybarite, C> Is there any interest in resurrecting this stuff? EasyVID is awesome. I keep a link handy to a few things and it's one of them. I think it would be great to see it updated. -- Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECT

[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-05 Thread Gerard Cote
Hi Max, > Yes I would like to see this and the ref doc tool rescuscitated. > > the ref-doc.r is my single most usefull rebol self-help tool. It is out of date, > but man its usefull. it would be fun to merge both ideas by creating a base viewer and using m-d-p files as catalogues which can be

[REBOL] Re: 'do vs 'reduce

2004-01-05 Thread Volker Nitsch
Am Montag 05 Januar 2004 17:59 schrieb Gregg Irwin: > Hi Andreas, > > AB> i was wondering if, letting refinements and non-block! parameters > AB> aside, 'do is really just a "last reduce", in other words, if (a > AB> simplified) do could be precisely expressed as: > > AB> do: func [ bl [block!]

[REBOL] Re: Cookbook submissions idea

2004-01-05 Thread Gerard Cote
Hey Max, Congratulations! You simply hit the bull's-eye !!! We simply miss some formal structure as to how and what has to be officially presented. May be the scripts library committee or other REBOL and/or DOC expert can help us to start with ... Finally someone must also be chosen as the One

[REBOL] Re: Cookbook submissions idea

2004-01-05 Thread Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch
I've never been ablr to find a way to make that work, but this would be the answer if you haven't found any answer to the riddle... a: [b true] c: 'b ;-) next line works change next find a c false probe a == [b false] -MAx --- "You can either be part of the problem or part of the soluti

[REBOL] Re: 1995 HTML (was Forum Name)

2004-01-05 Thread Jason Cunliffe
> But I will take a paragraph to explain Carl's approach to HTML. ..snip > There are limitations in both of our approaches, but at least we both have > some solid reasoning behind our strategies. Thanks for the context and your thoughts. I really do appreciate that Carl has *much* better thing

[REBOL] Re: Cookbook submissions idea

2004-01-05 Thread Ashley Trüter
The one that always gets me is: >> a: [b true] == [b true] >> c: 'b == b >> a/:c == true Now how does one do "a/:c: false"? Regards, Ashley -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: Cookbook submissions idea

2004-01-05 Thread Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch
something like this: -words are not variables. !! words are LIKE variables with context. !! -there are no statements in rebol !! only expressions !! creating your own "statements" - the 'ENUM example (generating words with values based on list of words ) - the

[REBOL] Re: [learning] "line", "rebol email"

2004-01-05 Thread Anton Rolls
Anthony, Check out my anim and demo sections: Take your Desktop browser to: Rebol.com/Sites/Anton Anton. > ok, i've a problem i've been thinking about for a > while. i realized i cant do it without reading the > rebol manual (on the rebol home page; www.rebol.com). > so, i started to r

[REBOL] Re: Easy-Vid

2004-01-05 Thread Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch
> What a shame the rebol browser plug-in is no more. Mine > worked for a couple > of days c.2001 and it was lovely... seems like a distant dream now yep, its not overly usefull for real applications some might say, but its a hell of a magnet for new users. It would let them install rebol in a

[REBOL] Re: Cookbook submissions idea

2004-01-05 Thread Gerard Cote
Hi Jason, > > "first gotchas" might be useful category.. > > You know the crucial little things which tripped you up till you went aha! > > - Jason > This is exactly in the spirit of what I was thinking about ... Who will be the first runner up to fill this need - just a single try or two for ea

[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-05 Thread Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch
Yes I would like to see this and the ref doc tool rescuscitated. the ref-doc.r is my single most usefull rebol self-help tool. It is out of date, but man its usefull. it would be fun to merge both ideas by creating a base viewer and using m-d-p files as catalogues which can be loaded/edited.

[REBOL] Easy-Vid

2004-01-05 Thread Jason Cunliffe
> Is there any interest in resurrecting this stuff? YES -- Easy-vid is a very cool and unique tool. I do not know of any other interactive notebook/environment which interprets code snips like that, except perhaps Mathematica's own fabulous notebook interface. Easy-Vid in my opinion makes a bril

[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-05 Thread Gerard Cote
I agree entirely and it seems that the cookbook already contains some new View and VID stuff (can be considered as old stuff too for the experienced REBOLERS! ) to add to %easy-vid.r . Most was written by Carl and other voluntaries. See the cookbook http://www.rebol.net/cookbook/ and look for te

[REBOL] Re: Where's Carl

2004-01-05 Thread SunandaDH
> We have been Reboling away for some time now > and i would just like to know were Carl stands with > Rebol and if anyone thats in the know, could get > him to respond to the list especially for all the new > commers in 2004. Carl's pretty head-down and working on View 1.3. There is a prett

[REBOL] Where's Carl

2004-01-05 Thread iNetW3
Hello everyone, We have been Reboling away for some time now and i would just like to know were Carl stands with Rebol and if anyone thats in the know, could get him to respond to the list especially for all the new commers in 2004.Just want to know. Happy New Years everyone. -- To unsubscr

[REBOL] ANN: Mailing list archive in DyBase format

2004-01-05 Thread Graham Chiu
I have exported my copy of the REBOL mailing list database ( July 2k to Jan 2004 of 38,000+ messages ) to DyBase format, and have placed it *temporarily* on my ftp server. It was 60Mb uncompressed, and 15Mb zipped. ftp://ftp.compkarori.com/pub/rebol/maillist.zip with a sample script on how

[REBOL] 1995 HTML (was Forum Name)

2004-01-05 Thread SunandaDH
Jason: > > 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

[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-05 Thread Cybarite
h can't seem to leave this topic Back in 2001, I added some sections to Carl's base work for VID - it was called %easyvid.r Carl's original is in the REBOL library at: http://www.reboltech.com/library/html/easy-vid.html It has "runnable code" in it - i.e. see the code sample then clic

[REBOL] Re: Cookbook submissions idea

2004-01-05 Thread Jason Cunliffe
"first gotchas" might be useful category.. You know the crucial little things which tripped you up till you went aha! - Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name [off topic]

2004-01-05 Thread Jason Cunliffe
>isn't rebol a drug for the majority of us... ask my wife, she'll tell you !! > > its harder to break than her smoke habbit... rebol-12step.com ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Cookbook submissions idea

2004-01-05 Thread Gerard Cote
Hello everybody, while I visited the cookbook (http://www.rebol.net/cookbook/) I got a couple of ideas that could be useful to every newcomer in their quest to become a consecrated REBOL knight (probably too much Lord of the Rings time recently ;-) 1- Since everyone of us also began on the

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name [off topic]

2004-01-05 Thread Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch
> > All reasonable, although I personally would avoid "users" > (connotation with drugs) but isn't rebol a drug for the majority of us... ask my wife, she'll tell you !! its harder to break than her smoke habbit... ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[REBOL] Problem with the way information can be found on the REBOL Web site

2004-01-05 Thread Gerard Cote
Hello everybody, I'm back from illness again and hope 2004 will be like a second rebirth for me in all spheres of activities, REBOL included. In fact My best wishes to you all for this new year. I already watched a lot of activities all around in the REBOL community since my last leaving and t

[REBOL] Re: Interlacing blocks

2004-01-05 Thread A J Martin
Henrik Mikael Kristensen wrote: > 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. >> a: [a b c] == [a b c] >> b: [x y z] == [x y z] >> x: [1 2 3] == [1 2 3] >> d: interweave reduce [

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Ammon Johnson
I'd have to agree here. ;-) ~~Ammon - Original Message - From: "Ashley Trüter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 4:37 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Forum Name > > > Now I would appreciate some feedback on a name for the forum... > > All reasonable,

[REBOL] Re: [learning] "line", "rebol email"

2004-01-05 Thread Jason Cunliffe
> trouble seperating the subject line from the body of > the email when sending email: they always end up the > same. Best to post actual code here for solving problems like that. Meanwhile, other people's examples may help.. http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/search.r?filter=domain-emai

[REBOL] Re: [learning] "line", "rebol email"

2004-01-05 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Discovering The forgotten DRAW dialect http://www.rebolforces.com/zine/rzine-1-05/#sect2. http://www.rebolforces.com/zine/rzine-1-06/#sect3. -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: [learning] "line", "rebol email"

2004-01-05 Thread Jason Cunliffe
> im very much a gamer and i hope to make some sort of > simple game (eventually becoming more complex) > beginning with this line. http://www.rebol.com/docs/draw.html http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/search.r?find=draw http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=e

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Carlos Lorenz
Well for me TALK sound more professional than CHAT ;) Em Seg 05 Jan 2004 13:16, you wrote: > Good Morning, so far we have 2 votes for reboltalk.com > and 2 votes for rebolchat.com. > > The domain will be purchased late tonight, anyone care to tip the scale? > > If not we can flip a coin. ;) > >

[REBOL] [learning] "line", "rebol email"

2004-01-05 Thread Anthony Morford
thanks greg, i think ill take your advice, and everyone elses if i can! i know how to send email from a particular email acount from rebol but is there some way i can check my Yahoo! email from rebol. i guess i have alot more to learn about computers too. i know that rebol deals with pop and ftp

[REBOL] Re: Interlacing blocks

2004-01-05 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Gregg, On Monday, January 5, 2004, 6:06:27 PM, you wrote: GI> NFOREACH was from Gabriele (his original message is after my GI> signature). Romano commented that 'bargs should be copied to handle GI> recursion, and Gabriele mentioned that maybe [throw] should be added GI> and other subtle issu

[REBOL] [REBOL.org] Recent changes

2004-01-05 Thread rebol
[REBOL] [REBOL.org] Recent changes This is an automatic email from REBOL.org, the REBOL Script Library to notify you of recent changes to the Library. ===changes=== gzip.r --change: new script --title: gzip iff-dialect.r --change: new script --title: IFF dialect quickparser.r --change:

[REBOL] Re: Interlacing blocks

2004-01-05 Thread Gregg Irwin
Ashley & Henrik, >> Interlacing blocks: >> AT> nforeach (posted a couple of months back) can do this. NFOREACH was from Gabriele (his original message is after my signature). Romano commented that 'bargs should be copied to handle recursion, and Gabriele mentioned that maybe [throw] should be ad

[REBOL] Re: 'do vs 'reduce

2004-01-05 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Andreas, AB> i was wondering if, letting refinements and non-block! parameters AB> aside, 'do is really just a "last reduce", in other words, if (a AB> simplified) do could be precisely expressed as: AB> do: func [ bl [block!] ] [ last reduce bl ] Well, both cause evaluation. If LOAD were

[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-05 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Anthony, You've gotten some great advice, so I'll just add a couple comments. Don't confuse the difficulty of learning to "program" with learning REBOL; you're learning two things at once. Don't despair if it seems like things aren't going as fast as you would like at first. You'll get there.

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Defiant Mail
"I remember that rebolforces.com used to host a forum, and it wasn't really popular. The rate "posts / month" was really low, indeed. Will it be different during 2004 ?" I can't say that it will, in the least we can archive information that will be useful to new users and like I mentioned befor

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Jason Cunliffe
> Good Morning, so far we have 2 votes for reboltalk.com > and 2 votes for rebolchat.com. imo: reboltalk -- is better than rebolchat but rebolforum -- is better than reboltalk -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Maryjane, DM> I have decided to set up a forum, if it takes off, great! DM> if it does not Im only out $6.00 for the domain name. DM> Now I would appreciate some feedback on a name for the forum... Excellent! I vote for REBOLtalk (or REBOL-talk per Carl's suggestion). Thanks for setting it

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Arie van Wingerden
Hi, rebol-talk would be a fine name :) Arie - Original Message - From: "Defiant Mail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:16 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Forum Name > > Good Morning, so far we have 2 votes for reboltalk.com > and 2 votes for rebo

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Bruno Bord
Defiant Mail wrote: >Good Morning, so far we have 2 votes for reboltalk.com >and 2 votes for rebolchat.com. > >The domain will be purchased late tonight, anyone care to tip the scale? > > > reboltalk.com sounds good to me. If I can bring you my .02, I remember that rebolforces.com used to hos

[REBOL] 'do vs 'reduce

2004-01-05 Thread Andreas Bolka
i was wondering if, letting refinements and non-block! parameters aside, 'do is really just a "last reduce", in other words, if (a simplified) do could be precisely expressed as: do: func [ bl [block!] ] [ last reduce bl ] -- Best regards, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list, just se

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Defiant Mail
Good Morning, so far we have 2 votes for reboltalk.com and 2 votes for rebolchat.com. The domain will be purchased late tonight, anyone care to tip the scale? If not we can flip a coin. ;) -Maryjane -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe a

[REBOL] Re: sort/scramble

2004-01-05 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Anton, Anton Rolls wrote: > > You might be able to do all this in the sort > comparator function somehow, but it's not obvious > to me. > I don't believe that it's possible to handle all of this via SORT/COMPARE . The comparison function only tells whether two values are in order or out o

[REBOL] Re: sort/scramble

2004-01-05 Thread Anton Rolls
Hallvard, what a curious problem? Why? I think the way to go is using the sort comparator function as I showed before. The two elements to be compared at each step are put into the arguments, here, 'a and 'b. sort/compare blk func [a b][either a/4/3 = #"c" [1][-1]] This moves blocks wit

[REBOL] Re: sort/scramble

2004-01-05 Thread Anton Rolls
Also check refinements of random to make it more random. By the way, this is what I actually meant: sort/compare blk func [a b][(random 3) - 2] Anton. > Try this on: > > sort/compare blk func [a b][(random 2) - 1] > > Anton. > > > Hi > > > > I need a function that will make sure

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Anton Rolls
It gets funnier.. -Anton. > 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]> >

[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-05 Thread Cybarite
Here are the bullets from Carl's designer tip sheet that may be useful: 1. forget the past 2. think simple 3. scripts start with a header 4. data drives it 5. names are critical 6. use words not strings 7. code in style 8. examples save time 9. learn series 10. embed your documentation 11. define

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Coussement Christophe
reboltalk is great! I appreciate the initiative, since I cannot connect to Altme from my work (SysAdmin proxy parano-settings) ;) FYI the forum exists in French @ http://www.codeur.org/forum/forum.php?theme=17 The French Rebol community is very active! ==christophe > > On 05-Jan-04, Defiant

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Ged Byrne
I recently registered TheMaybetrix as my domain name, and I'm planning to set up a forum there. I couldn't resist the name TheMaybetrix/Rebolutions. My host has just installed Rebol for CGI, so I'm hoping to write up my own simple forum. --- Carlos Lorenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I lik

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Carlos Lorenz
I like reboltalk.com very much Carlos Em Dom 04 Jan 2004 16:52, you wrote: > 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: > > reboluser

[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-05 Thread Anthony Morford
THANKS GUYS:) ! --- Carl Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05-Jan-04, Anthony Morford wrote: > > > 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 t

[REBOL] Re: Forum Name

2004-01-05 Thread Carl Read
On 05-Jan-04, Defiant Mail wrote: > 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 > reb

[REBOL] Re: understanding rebol

2004-01-05 Thread Carl Read
On 05-Jan-04, Anthony Morford wrote: > 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 th