World: r3wp

I am just learning everything I can, so knowing about Block Parsing 
sounds good to. tuples! are quite good for IP addresses, but ip addresses 
often need exactly 4 parts. I wonder why there are no datatypes specific 
for networking? e.g. networks & masks & inverse masks and domain 
names. and DNS records.

Mhinsob, if you load an ip address (from a string) you got a tuple, 
so what is different in your request ?
>> type? probe load "1.2.3.4" 
1.2.3.4
== tuple!

Possibly checking that it's a valid IP address?
>> length? 1.2.3.4
== 4
>> length? 1.2.3.4.5
== 5
>> length? 1.2.3.44.5
== 5

early tuples were more restrictive if I recall  (max of lenght 4) 
but then we complained we wanted to use them for more than just networking

You can use up to 10 tuple elements - any higher wouldn't fit into 
an immediate value.

I wonder why there are no datatypes specific for networking?

In general we like our types to be more widely applicable. However, 
we have tuple!, url!, and port!. The rest can be handled by functions.

mhinson, not sure if your using R2 or R3 but if your using R2 then 
you might want to know about get-modes.

>> get-modes tcp:// 'interfaces
== [make object! [
        name: "lo0"
        addr: 127.0.0.1
        netmask: 255.0.0.0
        broadcast: none
        dest-addr...
>> print get-modes tcp:// 'interfaces
name: "lo0"
addr: 127.0.0.1
netmask: 255.0.0.0
broadcast: none
dest-addr: none
flags: [multicast loopback]
name: "if15"
addr: 169.254.102.14
netmask: 255.255.0.0
broadcast: 169.254.255.255
dest-addr: none
flags: [broadcast multicast]
name: "if12"
addr: 192.168.1.105
netmask: 255.255.255.0
broadcast: 192.168.1.255
dest-addr: none
flags: [broadcast multicast]

I don't know what the equivalent in R3 is.

Nothing yet :(

The get-modes looks interesting. Can it produce information about 
any ip address I might give it?  like 172.22.37.55/28 

I suppose that is an example of a very common network address "type"

GET-MODES gets information about ports, not addresses.

Hi. is there a special function to remove the last element of a string 
please? this works, but seems a bit cryptic.
reverse next reverse {a.b.c.}        Thanks.

These avoids the double reversal -- not sure if they are less cryptic:
     head clear  back tail  {a.b.c.}
     head remove back tail {a.b.c.}

Thanks Sunanda. I like clear back tail {a.b.c.}  then I can directly 
modify my string.

Wrapping it in a func makes it less cryptic. :-)

Hi. If I obtain a date from a file and it is a DATE!  what is in 
that date?  for example I know it contains date/month, but can I 
get it to return the month as a string with a leading 0 or anything 
like that?  Or is it up to me to code the formatting I need from 
integer date values? Is this documented anywhere or can I see any 
of the source some how.  Thanks.

There are no built-in date formatting functions that do that. However, 
I'm sure the REBOL.org script library has one :)

Hi Brian, I see some goodies there. What I am doing is too trivial 
to want to link any large blocks of code just for that so I will 
just code the bit I need I think.  I was puzzled because DATE returns 
the info with the month as  a word, but date/month returns an integer, 
so I imagined there must me more to DATE! than just a structure containing 
integers?

documented: do you mean like date/month date/day, etc?

http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html#section-3.2

Hi Ladislav, yes. or any other bits of information attached to dtae 
types

(I found a couple of errors in the text)

seems, it was changed recently

the file http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/datatypes/date.htmllooks like 
being affected too

>> d: now
== 5-Jul-2009/10:36:09+12:00
>> d/1
== 2009
>> d/2
== 7
>> d/3
== 5

though it's 4th of July for you guys ...

not for me anymore

Thanks...  I can work with that information, but I am curious as 
to how referencing the whole date gives Jul  but there seems no option 
fot the month as a word.... not that I want it, but I am curious 
how that works.

>> d: now
== 5-Jul-2009/0:36:25+1:00

not applying to those guys who should be asleep!

LOL

which reminds me .. date functions should have a /utc refinement 
:)

I write my best code in the middle of the night with no PC... shame 
it is all forgotton by the morning, or written on toilet pater.

Happy 753rd year of independence (source: wikipedia, apparently):
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902

mhinson .. look at the locale

753 years ???

Check the article, graham.

>> probe system/locale
make object! [
    months: [
        "January" "February" "March" "April" "May" "June"

        "July" "August" "September" "October" "November" "December"
    ]
    days: [

        "Monday" "Tuesday" "Wednesday" "Thursday" "Friday" "Saturday" "Sunday"
    ]
]

Gavin Menzies, the english "historian" claims the americas were "discovered" 
by a chinese fleet in 1421 ...

>> d: now
== 5-Jul-2009/0:42:01+2:00
>> pick system/locale/days d/weekday
== "Sunday"
>> pick system/locale/months d/month
== "July"

Discovery means less and less every day :(

I'll only trust wikipedia when they put the "a" back in ... as wikipaedia

WTF ... did Ladislav's time zone undergo a shift  ... or is he flying 
??

so does Rebol always reference the system/locale when printing a 
DATE! but only store the inteeger values?  or does it store the date 
in julian format & do more complex stuff to output even things like 
date/year

graham: the first one was from R3, the second one from R2

oh !

so "flying from R3 to R2"

In both cases .. your clock, or mine, is out by 2 mins

mhinson, MOLD and FORM never reference system/locale - REBOL syntax 
is English-based.