Jim, Just to clarify. I did not mean "unreliable" but meant "inconsistent" from a syntax perspective as Ladislav was discussing. I have seen this same...
Harold Grovesteen
athena@...
May 1, 2001 11:35 am
806
To make context somewhat clearer I've drawn a little graph. All behaviour of context fits into the model. Please try to see how context, functions and objects...
Daan Oosterveld
emptyhead@...
May 1, 2001 7:02 pm
807
PRIMO/Tiny I've been doing a bit of thinking about REBOL natives!, actions!, operators! and of course datatypes!. I've been thinking that there actually is a ...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 1, 2001 9:34 pm
808
PRIMO/Tiny I've been doing a bit of thinking about REBOL natives!, actions!, operators! and of course datatypes!. I've been thinking that there actually is a ...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 1, 2001 11:34 pm
809
PRIMO/Tiny I've been doing a bit of thinking about REBOL natives!, actions!, operators! and of course datatypes!. I've been thinking that there actually is a ...
Robbo1Mark@...
May 1, 2001 11:49 pm
810
... Yep, once a Math guy, always a Math guy. :) You wanna a PI. It is as easy as PI! Here is: PI: divide 22 7 == 3.142857' Only in error of 0.001264 Seriously,...
Geo Massar
gmassar@...
May 2, 2001 3:34 am
811
Regards my /Tiny suggestion, here's some more redundancy in native! functions. poke: make function! [ series index value ] [ insert remove at series index...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 2, 2001 10:25 am
812
... Aha, seems I have had some influence on you after all. :-) ... Actually, I regard prefix and infix (and postfix) as more of a parser thing than a real...
Marcus Petersson
d4marcus@...
May 2, 2001 6:47 pm
813
Hi GEO, Yes I should have made myself clearer, it is my belief that the MATH functions in REBOL/Core are variations on the standard C library functions passing...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 2, 2001 10:05 pm
814
Everybody, Here's my initial list of candidates for the /Tiny wordset. Can anybody see any toehr redundancies? Feel free to comment or update / improve this...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 2, 2001 10:42 pm
815
Everybody, apologise for the horrible layout of this previous message, I was using the post form here on the web site and turning off the word wrap didn't seem...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 3, 2001 8:05 am
816
MARCUS / EVERYBODY Why would the "idealised" language need some of the following; 1. Bytecode Compilation. 2. A Full Class System. These are Python & Java ways...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 3, 2001 9:24 am
817
Hi Mark! I disagree with you on the point that PRIMO might not need a full class system or Object oriented programming support , Apart from being easier to...
sharriff.aina@...
May 3, 2001 11:11 am
818
BLOCK! & STRING! SERIES DATA-MODEL DAAN, As we are well aware in REBOL a Block! is an array or list containing zero or more elements of the type any-type!. A...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 3, 2001 11:30 am
819
Mark, It should be a array of characters. Not values because that would waste memory and make the string value obsolete. The string cannot be a C ... ==...
Daan Oosterveld
emptyhead@...
May 3, 2001 3:39 pm
820
Daan, cheers for your quick response Daan, I'd been looking at your previous C code for strings! and could see you had an array of characters & not values, I...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 3, 2001 4:18 pm
821
EVERYBODY, I haven't done this before, promise I won't do it often, and try not to do it if at all possible. But here goes............ If you have more than a...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 3, 2001 4:31 pm
822
... One reason is to speed up the program somewhat. You save the time normally used for parsing. Also, if the bytecode is more compact than the original source...
Marcus Petersson
d4marcus@...
May 3, 2001 8:36 pm
823
... Rebol does support inheritance. Like C++ has inheritance it just a trick to order data into a tree like hierachy. Nothing special about that. You can...
Daan Oosterveld
emptyhead@...
May 4, 2001 4:49 pm
824
MARCUS ... normally ... original ... which can ... like ... Which Byte-Code? Wirth 1970's Pascal P-Code, JAVA Byte-code, Python Byte-Code, Perl Xs (???)...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 4, 2001 5:03 pm
825
Great idea! The base natives were all other natives can be derived from can be programmed first. Producing an ready to rumble core. The other derived natives...
Daan Oosterveld
emptyhead@...
May 4, 2001 5:06 pm
826
DAAN / MARCUS When I said " the human brain is able to cope with that level of complexity " I was thinking in terms the propensity for C++ or JAVA programs to...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 4, 2001 5:12 pm
827
There have been some studies into this. The human brain can't even completely understand a small program. Most programs are written by the standart trail and...
Daan Oosterveld
emptyhead@...
May 4, 2001 5:53 pm
828
Daan, I agree, I cannot comprehend or remember the complete works of Shakespeare but I do understand the characters that make up words and I know how to...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 4, 2001 6:27 pm
829
... But you do remember the plots, don't you? That's the important part. Not if you remember the words or characters but if you know the story. That is the...
Marcus Petersson
d4marcus@...
May 6, 2001 8:43 pm
830
... I'm not sure but I think real inheritance is supposed to be dynamic. Like: a: make object! [nr: 1] b: make a [type: integer!] a/nr: 2 b/nr == 2 ; Not 1 as...
Marcus Petersson
d4marcus@...
May 6, 2001 9:04 pm
831
MARCUS, There is no argument here, only healthy debate, don't be afraid to stand up for what you think is right or what should be considered for the design of...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 8, 2001 10:00 am
832
MARCUS, Have been thinking about this a bit more, consider this REBOL code; ... make object! [ v: 1 ] ... == 1 ... == 7 ... make object! [ v: 7 ] ... make...
Mark Dickson
Robbo1Mark@...
May 8, 2001 6:23 pm
833
Hi Mark! The /Tiny wordset looks *good* to me .... (just my 2c worth .... :-) . - Andy...
andy.elvey@...
May 9, 2001 8:06 am
834
What is A REBOL Context? A Context in REBOL is a value of the object! datatype and is composed of three distinct block! values. These 3 blocks can be described...
