[REBOL] Re: rebol get-together in montreal ?

2004-04-03 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Maxim, I would attend the get-together, would even consider talking about two of my current related rebol projects... Btw Maxim, I live in Sainte-Therese, I could provide car lifts for people near my area... Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[REBOL] Re: [OT] Announcement, new application in the making... stone & blood

2004-02-09 Thread Christian Morency
Good to know they are gamers on the list... I myself am working on my object/class library just to work on a D&D program on which I've been working a lot in the past few years... but not really started coding yet. Good luck with your project... once I finish Recoil, maybe we could join effort...

[REBOL] Re: Threading continued

2004-01-29 Thread Christian Morency
> Jaime Vargas wrote: > -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it -- Steve Jobs Sorry if this off-topic and seems like neat-picking, but I have way too much respect for inovators in computer history to let this through ;) (Those do not include (jobs/gates/linus)). Amongs said innovat

[REBOL] Re: Is Rebol OO?

2004-01-11 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, I don't know if you're talking about RECOIL, I remember sharing part of the code and idea with someone else... But who ??? Yep, it was a very ugly proof of concept... But it was a proof ;) Anyway, I need to get back in the code... And rewrite the whole thing. Basically, it was able to suppo

[REBOL] Re: Is Rebol OO?

2004-01-11 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, Yep, I did start work on a OO framework... I've been away from rebol for the past two year and the reason I just subscribed back is to see if anybody would be interested in something like that ;) Best, Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh

[REBOL] Re: IS REBOL object oriented?

2002-06-04 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, Some tips regarding OOP under Rebol... - Rebol will let you design objects containing variables and functions. - Rebol has strong datatype (ie not everything is an object !) - Rebol OOP is more like Self than Smalltalk, Java or C++. They are no classes, every object is an instance. Rebol wi

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-23 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, Have you looked at function ? ie myfunc: function [arg1 arg2] [local1 local2] [source] or myfunc: function [ arg1 arg2 ] [ local1 local2 ] [ source ] it pretty much what you want, plus if you use the following > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTE

[REBOL] Re: REBOL : Pure OOP project ?

2002-04-09 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, > In my view, the single most needed tool for app > development is a good list style. I plan to make > one after I fix up my grid some more. > (I saw Robert M. Muench's interesting problem and > I will keep that in mind). In my view, the single most needed tool for app development is a rebol

[REBOL] Re: REBOL : Pure OOP project ?

2002-04-09 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, > Hi, concerning OOP for Rebol IMO we shouldn't take it to > dogmatic. I'm still > finding my own useage pattern for Rebol. At the moment I don't > think OOP is the > key to the Rebol-usage-pattern. I'm focusing on an "object > aggregated" pattern > and it seems to be quite OK. I agree that

[REBOL] Re: : Pure OOP project ?

2002-04-09 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Gregg, > I've been doing OOP stuff heavily for the past 7 years (though > SmallTalkers > and Eiffel folks could argue about the OOP-ness of it :) and I'm > constantly > amazed at the code I find myself writing in REBOL compared to what I would > have written before. I daily think in C, Smallt

[REBOL] Re: REBOL : Pure OOP project ?

2002-04-08 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, > > I gather that your functions must do a lot of code ? OOP/Methods, when > > clearly designed, limits development by favoring reuse. This is > one of the > > thing I need for my project. > > I kind of agree with Carl's notion that OOP is overrated. Perhaps > the metaphor of "object" needs

[REBOL] Re: REBOL : Pure OOP project ?

2002-04-08 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Gregg, > I thought, when I started with REBOL, that I would build an OOP > infrastructure for my projects (as I had done in the past with other > languages), but the more I've worked with it, the more I've moved > away from > that line of thinking. I'm still finding my way with REBOL, from a d

[REBOL] Re: REBOL : Pure OOP project ?

2002-04-08 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, Forgot to say something about my current implementation ... The worst/best part is that it does not support function refinements ! I can understand the power of refinements, and have even used it for some small scripts... but at the same time I don't like it... I have found that most of the

[REBOL] Re: REBOL : Pure OOP project ?

2002-04-08 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Tim, > I'm designing a DB-based system to service a number of clients, > each with a variety of needs. My hope is to service all of them > with the same application, in which most of the custom code is > re-evaluated global data, rather than "code". > It's been a bit of a headache to keep the

[REBOL] Re: REBOL : Pure OOP project ?

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Morency
ay, April 07, 2002 9:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: REBOL : Pure OOP project ? > > > Hi, Christian, > > I'm interested with your OO approach. Did you make tests with your lib > (memory allocation and size, performance) ? What kind of method did you

[REBOL] REBOL : Pure OOP project ?

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, Considering the low number of replies I got from the list regarding this thread : Class object inheritance library interest ? and the interest shown in the Business object versionning thread. I begin to think that either Rebolers are not interested in almost pure OOP with REBOL or that intere

[REBOL] Re: Browser gripe

2002-03-15 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, > The reasons that Netscape and Internet Explorer have become unusable and > unstable (so users have upgradaphobia) roots itself in something I heard > Alan Kay say in a video talk, "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Started > Yet" which Jim Collas has never returned to me ;-( Even though it so

[REBOL] Class object inheritance library interest ?

2002-03-13 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Rebolers, Short version : Anybody interested in helping for this kind of library ? email me privately at: to-email rejoin ["chrismorency" "@" "videotron.ca"] Long version : For the past few months, I've been working on a class object inheritance library for Rebol. I've been through several im

[REBOL] Re: Editor to use

2002-02-18 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Guys, Enjoy the wordfile, any suggestions, flames will be accepted ;) btw, you can remove the RSP at the end of the first line, I use that for my Rebol Server Pages under Marteen's excellent eRebol One reply to many replies : Stef wrote: >The url doesn't seems to work. Is it "normal" ? How >

[REBOL] Re: Editor to use

2002-02-17 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, Sorry for the delay... Been busy at the job... I just added the enhanced wordfile for UltraEdit at http://www.palmtime.com in the rebol section for those interested. This wordfile add-on list more words than the one at UltraEdit, it does not do the same syntax highlight either... highlight i

[REBOL] Re: Editor to use

2002-02-13 Thread Christian Morency
I use ultraedit too, however I changed the syntax file to include more core 2.5 fns, I also added a basic function list ;) Best, Chris > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Michael Jervis > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 12:22 PM > To

[REBOL] Re: Rebol & Linux

2002-02-03 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, I would strongly suggest Mandrake, which has a GUI installation, offer partitionning, etc... it's very simple to install. Best, Chris > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 8:31 PM

[REBOL] Re: REBOL + PHP, or ...?

2001-11-25 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, > I am not sure I understand you correctly, but typically assigning some > extension for your files to be "executed", we speak "cgi". I have > currently set-up ability to execute scripts only for /cgi-bin/ dir, and > /fast-cgi/ for fast-cgi scripts. > I am not sure it is a good thing to allow

[REBOL] Re: QubeOS - network OS ...

2001-11-24 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Pekr, Yes, I've been watching OS lately and Qube could really become interesting. I tried d/l the SDK but the zip file I got was not correct. Since the same executable file will run on Win32, Dos and Linux, I would really be interested in seeing REBOL Core/View ported to it ! Now I could insta

[REBOL] Re: REBOL + PHP, or ...?

2001-11-24 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, > Ah, thanks! So all my pages are supposed to come to /cgi-bin/ dir, > right? Few comments, one question though :-) Actually no, they can be anywhere in the hierarchy of your site, however since they have a specific extension you told Apache about, they will be processed by rebol.exe. Yeah,

[REBOL] Re: SHEEP vs Rebol

2001-10-12 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Graham, > > They would be better off using REBOL, but perhaps they > > don't want their scripts to run and exchange data across > > 40+ platforms > > > > But then they would have to pay for Pro licenses for each > unit so that they could have sound :) me: make object! [ say: func [j

[REBOL] Re: pseudo-class inheritance at a price ?

2001-10-07 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Christian, > some months ago I worked an a similiar project, you can find my > code at the bottom of this mail. It's not very complete, but it > may inspire you in a way or two :) Thanks very much for the code, I will certainly look at it. However, my implantation is almost complete... > I d

[REBOL] Re: pseudo-class inheritance at a price ?

2001-10-07 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Phil, > What about this scenario > > How would you transmit an object over an IP connection and be able to type > it? > > i.e. > parent class A -> child class B > parent class A -> child class C > > C: class-C-object-instance > > clientfd: open tcp://localhost: > insert clientfd C( ? )

[REBOL] pseudo-class inheritance at a price ?

2001-10-07 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, As I mentioned in another post earlier, I've been working for the past three weeks on a pseudo class inheritance library for Rebol/Core. This would enable rebol developers to use class to define object or class inheritance. Why ? The current implementation of object "inheritance" under rebol

[REBOL] Meeting at Netscape for Internet

2001-04-22 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, Will the mailing list/rebol website host a report of the meeting ? Best, Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carl Sassenrath Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Re: unsolicited email - nql

[REBOL] Re: Embedded REBOL (Re: Population of PDA Users)

2001-04-12 Thread Christian Morency
ly I was'nt pleased that moving to REBOL meant moving to CE. --Ryan PS: Satellite Forms has no runtime licensing anymore. Christian Morency wrote: > Hi, > > "Lately I have been really thinking about just s--- canning the Palm, and > going > with, well, something else t

[REBOL] Re: Embedded REBOL (Re: Population of PDA Users)

2001-04-11 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, jeff wrote: "Yes, the REBOL Palm port lives in a border town next to the realm of "possibility". REBOL has even been compiled for Palm before, but the problem is that in order for REBOL to run (or even to boot) a segmentation paging scheme (virtual memory) has to be used. Under such a schem

[REBOL] Re: Embedded REBOL (Re: Population of PDA Users)

2001-04-11 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, "Lately I have been really thinking about just s--- canning the Palm, and going with, well, something else that can run REBOL. I might getting one of those VR6's, just to see if I can get REBOL to run on it." Hmm, I know some people can't stand Microsoft's products... but there might be a c

[REBOL] Re: Embedded REBOL (Re: Population of PDA Users)

2001-04-11 Thread Christian Morency
Hi all! "Actually, the RAM hardware the heap is in is no faster than the rest of the RAM. The reason it is 32k is because it is accessed using a 16-bit signed offset pointer. Other RAM needs a change of base pointer in addition to the offset, an operation that takes slightly longer. Palm OS is 16

[REBOL] Re: REBOL/View 1.0 Ships!

2001-04-11 Thread Christian Morency
area ? Cheers colinb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian Morency Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Re: REBOL/View 1.0 Ships! Hi, Congratulations on the release, look forward

[REBOL] Re: Population of PDA Users

2001-04-08 Thread Christian Morency
Colin, Did you get my message on which I said it worked on HP 680 ? so AFAIK, it should work on HP 620 Best, Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Colin Brizell Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 4:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL]

[REBOL] Re: Population of PDA Users

2001-04-07 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Geo, Consider me a PDA-Geek, I've had : Nec MP400, HP 620LX, Nino 300, PsionS5 (shameless plug : check http://www.palmtime.com for some nice games/utilities for EPOC) I currently own : HP 680LX, Casio E-125, Handspring Prism I used to write for Team Palmtops, a french magazine about palmtop

[REBOL] Re: REBOL/View 1.0 Ships!

2001-04-07 Thread Christian Morency
TECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian Morency Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Re: REBOL/View 1.0 Ships! Hi, Congratulations on the release, look forward using it with the script I wrote for Rebol/Core... Any chance for a WindowsCE/P

[REBOL] Re: REBOL/View 1.0 Ships!

2001-04-06 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, Congratulations on the release, look forward using it with the script I wrote for Rebol/Core... Any chance for a WindowsCE/PocketPC version of Rebol/View ? The PDA market would really benefits from a good generic SDK and scripting tools like Rebol/Core + Rebol/View ? Best, Chris -Origin

[REBOL] Re: Website updated

2001-04-04 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, Awesome !!! When ? How ? I've been playing with an idea for a multi-os software, hope View will find it's way on WindowsCE / PocketPC ! That would definitively make me happy ! Best, Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Tretter

[REBOL] Re: Problem with new core on Windows CE (SH3)

2001-03-26 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, Working great on PocketPC (MIPS) (E-125) and thanks to the development team to continue supporting WindowsCE !!! Just noticed something though, I'm not sure how v2.3 was on my device, but if I remember correctly it was like running like this under PocketPC's WindowsCE 2.x emulation... Menu

[REBOL] Super ?

2001-03-01 Thread Christian Morency
Hi, I'm back in the Rebolution, after telling every one I know how this language is promising, after spending a lot of times on several projects, I'm back using Rebol for personnal and professionnal reasons ;) Any idea of how I can have the equivalent of super in smalltalk ? Best, Chris -- To