World: r3wp

Ahaa.. I saw ports and schemes mentioned and that you can define 
your own, but still have no idea what they are, will need to read 
more about it..

rebol is both very small and very big at the same time

(in a good way)

so it's not a new datatype, but a new scheme for port!.

yes, I realized .. that's why I said big.. usually there are functions 
and variables, here are so many things, dialects, schemes .. etc 
:)

I think you can figure out how it works by reading Steeves code. 
It's quite simple.

that link doesn't work for me , and I also don't have r3 to test 
it

I saw some tutorial about creating new "protoco handler" .. or is 
that a third thing?

it should be the same thing

if you read about ports in the wiki, they'll give a fair explanation 
of how they work.

it's the same reason you can use READ on files, HTTP, FTP, etc.

aha yes.. this is interesting concept .. I was alredy thinking about 
it when I was using pop:// protocol (carl probably realized that 
most "communication" can be abstracted in means on operating on serries)..

then I suppose to create new scheme needs to just provide handlers 
for all those funcs, insert, copy, delete .. ?

Henrik, to what level are you being involved in R3 development?

I work on the GUI and point out bugs to Carl.

Do you guys get to get down to the C code at all or is that strictly 
controlled by Carl?

C is only Carl and Cyphre. Everyone else only work with REBOL. But 
we are allowed to contribute C code if he wants something specific.

Oh what about Gabriele? I thought he had that type of access.

Yes, but he is very busy with QTask for the moment. He has contributed 
HTTP, REBOL/Services and the first prototype of the VID3 GUI.

I see.

Janko, yes, exactly. If you open a port, you get a port object with 
information about what the scheme does. When that port is passed 
to COPY, appropriate actions are taken to carry out the COPY function 
that resides inside the scheme.

All of you volunteers are do you guys get paid for your work?

I volunteer. I don't know about others.

Is there a list of all those contributing to R3?

Our official people list appears not to be up to date:

http://rebol.net/wiki/People

:-)

hehe - no doesn't appear so.

well, there's me (GUI), BrianH (smart guy), Brian Tiffin (docs), 
Cyphre (graphics), Gabriele (network/GUI), Pekr (communications), 
Maarten (network), and about 10 others who've made contributions. 
Didn't really want to mention people in case I forget important ones.

I understand.  But that is helpful, thanks.

I think Steeve and Doc are involved in some manner as well.

oh yes. see? I forgot some. :-)

Paul: when you were asking about default arguments to funcs before, 
I think it's a "conceptual" limitation because of stuff like this 
example (for example that oneortwo can take 1 or 2 arguments : >> 
oneortwo 2 add 3 2  .............  and most things like if either 
are expressions which means they return a value (which you sometimes 
need and sometimes not )  you can "assume" that you will always require 
result of add because it has no side effect, but for example : >> 
oneortwo 2 if [ insert copy [ ] 1 ] ..... there is no theoretical 
way to determine if result of if SHOULD be taken by oneortwo or not

thats probably why refinements were invented , that also add a lot 
of new

OCaml for example has optional arguments , but you HAVE to use parentesis 
like this oneorwto 2 ( add 3 2 ) and every value that get's returned 
from expression must sink into something explicitly ..  so if you 
don't need it you have to still use     >> let _ = somefunc 10 in 
<<.. or >> ignore ( somefunc ) ; ..

(but I am a ocaml newbie too)

[Virtual blocks] What do you think of an option to allow fixed-size 
records only, so that there is no need to create a file index (faster 
access but data file possibly bigger)

yes, I like that.

yes that would be a cool option too

Steeve ... are there any chances to see this also in R2?

theoricaly yes, schemes exist under R2 too

do you want R2 version at first ?

BrianH:  ELSE  -  I never used it. I don't care if it's removed.

well at least there is a chance :) .. well I don't know when I will 
be able to try R3 at all, and even less when I will be able to use 
in for real projects... that's why I am asking, but I don't "urgently" 
need it right now so no worries for me

I like that you focus on R3 because this all moves it forward too, 
so hopefully we will get to it sooner than later

BrianH, I first noticed ELSE now that you mentioned it :-) Don't 
need it.

Fixed sized would only be faster in the sense of retrieving specific 
records.  Traversal is actually slower.

But I would say offer it anyway because this would make the virtual 
block scheme more versatile for the respective application.

will R3 have something similar than coroutines or a way to simulate 
cooperative or preemptive (green-not on os level threads) concurrency?

(I imagine that if not otherwise this could somehow be made in libraries 
with its code is data feature)

R3 has tasks, which I believe are OS threads.

wow, really? this is cool.. usually scripting langs have only green 
(not-os) threads