World: r4wp

@PeterWood Thank you again Peter! 

Peter answered a question on the Red mailing list (all subscribe!) 
about me calling a function in Red like f(10) where it should have 
been f 10 and I didnot get this. The (10) part was being processed 
as a paren! type so the value was calculated before giving to the 
function f as input.

Time is almost ripe for Red school group.

DocKimbel: Parallella: Sounds like a very interesting challenge. 
:-)

They have devs focussing on Erlang, Go, interesting stuff. Beating 
them with Red is ambitious. Pointing them to Red is ok.

Doc: "did you encapped Red compiler?" Nope, RedCompiler.exe is just 
calling the rsc.r or red.r according to the extension of given script 
file. It should be placed in the red-master directory.

I tried to make a encapped Red compiler but there are some problems 
with #include or other compiler directives.

Once we merge %red.r and %rsc.r, I will look into encapping the whole 
thing, so we'll be able to start distributing Red as a unique binary 
file.

Yeah it will be great. People can try Red & R/S easily then.

ZLib binding for Red/System released by Bruno:

https://github.com/dockimbel/Red/tree/master/red-system/library/zlib

Looking at http://www.red-lang.org/p/contributions.htmlit seems 
to me, that Red has more bindings, than for R2 + R3 combined :-) 
Maybe just an impression, as I miss such a conscise list on rebol.com 
website ....

That page is incomplete...

Am I doing something wrong with this?:
Red/System []
mem: declare pointer! [byte!] len: 10
while [all [0 < len: len - 1]][mem: mem + 1]


*** Compiler Internal Error: Script Error : get-function-spec expected 
name argument o
f type: word
*** Where: get-type
*** Near:  [either 'op = second get-function-spec]

What are you filling mem with?

I am not filling mem, that is only an extract of my code (a part 
of a search function).

Why the compiler gives an error?

Could be it is a compiler error, the message suggests it imho.

Pointers are not my specialty :(

Have you previously done a while loop in Red/System like that? Try 
it a little simpler while [0 < len][mem: mem + 1 len: len - 1] to 
be sure it is not the combined statement that is confusing the compiler. 
(Just trying to help here until the real experts jump in)

It seems the all [] inside the while test block the problem, so how 
can I do more then one test inside it?

Assignments can't be embedded, so you have to split them out into 
a separate expression

put all [] in a block too?

len: len - 1  len > 0

keep it simple

The ALL [ ] is not needed

Good thing Red isn't called Green (as in combined blue and yellow)

The all [] was meant to be a test to see if Red/System can handle 
it?

It can, but it's not needed here

yep

Not needed here but the original was:
while [all [mem/1 <> string/1 0 < len: len - 1]][mem: mem + 1]

while [len: len - 1  len > 0]

so try

while [all [mem/1 <> string/1 len: len - 1 0 < len]][mem: mem + 1]

while [len: len - 1  all [mem/1 <> string/1  len > 0]]

6 seconds, you are fast Kaj!

It has taken 45 years for someone to say that to me :-)

Ok, understood.

I would like to have that feature in Red/System v2 :-)

Poor Marco! Hope this is still helpful!
I think those 'features' are confusing (and bad practice)

Even while [len: len - 1 0 < len] or while [0 < len len: len - 1] 
is terrible if you ask me. Luckily you do not ask me. :)

You mean the features that define REBOL?

while [0 < len len: len - 1] doesn't work, either in Red/System or 
in REBOL

I mean code like 0 < len: len - 1 is confusing to me.

That's a good functional programming idiom that REBOL and Red support. 
Without it, they wouldn't really be functional languages

Adding to Kaj's reply, assignments in Red/System are not returning 
anything, so they can't be used in ANY or ALL blocks. This is something 
we'll change in 2.0 (maybe even before if it's possible without rewritting 
most of the compiler).

Good news

Shared library generation for MacOS X has been released.

Use -t DarwinSO as compilation target for now. Some details needs 
more work and I will probably change the naming scheme for shared 
libraries targets.

Don't use -dlib compilation option as it won't activate all the required 
flags for non-Windows platforms. This should be fixed tonight.

I found out that not only does Red not support Unicode, it doesn't 
support Latin-1, not even on Windows

Both the compile time and runtime lexers don't let Latin-1 through

I've relabeled my console versions as supporting only ASCII

Hey guys was just thinking.  Why not a RED group on linkedin.com? 
 Doc you should start one up.  I'll definatley join and think many 
here would.  Would be another outlet to get more discussion with 
those outside of the usual outlets.

Good idea. I would join from the start. But better maybe in a later 
stage of the development? When it is more appropriate to attrackt 
more outside momentum because there is even more Red to show to the 
world? After Red becomes really selfsupporting? It seems to me all 
the other channels are taking a lot of time for Nenad as is.