World: r3wp

Kib2, is that your blog ? it's nice
http://thewrongsideofcode.blogspot.com/

Steeve : you don't have too. I'm playing with it at the moment (with 
R2), and I really enjoy it.

I think, that's one of the biggest reasons, we stick around with 
REBOL. Suddently it's very much fun programming again. :-)

Janko: I like this, and in fact it's also the Factor way of doing 
things.

Steeve: that was mine (I've 3 posts then I've stopped it)

yes, thats why I said about blocks because they look similar than 
factor quotations

Steeve: my real blog is here : http://thewikiblog.appspot.com/

What editor do you use on Windows ?

vim

but quotations in factor are still more special case, you have curry 
and few words for them , but in rebol code block is the same as ordinary 
data block ( like a sequence { asdasd asd asasd } in factor so you 
can use insert append remove next ... etc on it .. I imagine factor 
is more limited here because it compiles things, here you can process 
your block of code just the same as data and then run it

emacs

texpad

(textpad)

I've downloaded the EMacs mode, but I'm unable to launch my code 
inside it. I also have a etexteditor bundle for Rebol.

I use that more too and it works.. I don't remember if I changed 
anything

i don't like colorization of code, so that a simple text editor with 
macros (to launch rebol) is enough

hm.. I think you have to a line to your .emacs file .. just a sec

Steeve: editing without colorization is really painful for me

hm.. it seems I just copied that file into .emacs and added 2 lines 
(I just started using emacs)

for me too

bah... it's because you begin, after some time, you'll prefer without 
it :)

you can find my file here http://www.refaktor.si/storage/

but then you have to loom much more to see what is what, don't you?

loom = look

hum, i don't feel pain, my brain do colorization by himself :)

my real blog is here : http://thewikiblog.appspot.com/

I just visited, it looks interesting!

Janko: thanks,

Geomol: what are your interests ?

what does pain, is an excessive code length but it's the point where 
Rebol is the best: short length of code

Steeve: Rebol is auto folding !

kib, science, programming, playing piano, graphics, photo, astronomy 
... many things. My hp at university: http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/

I like colourization, but I make the colours vary only slightly from 
black, so there are no very bright colours shouting at me.

Geomol: you're working on astronomy : nice !

Anton: I like this Emacs theme : http://tinyurl.com/chybvc

yes nice, same comment

Studying astronomy. Bachelor this summer.

kib2: I should point out that  '  is not an operator. There are a 
few word datatypes which are closely related, but are treated slightly 
differently.
	word!     eg.    hello
	lit-word!  eg.   'hello
	get-word! eg.  :hello
	set-word! eg.  hello:

I saw there was a really nice postscript (and pdf) lib in Rebol. 
What about using it for making scientific diagrams ? (an old project 
of mine, in Python, was geoPyx here: http://kib2.free.fr/geoPyX/geoPyXfr.html)

Anton: so what is ' exactly ? I mean a litteral, but that's not a 
Rebol function ?

No, not a function.

When the interpreter evaluates some items in a block, and it comes 
across word!, it automatically tries to reduce it to its associated 
value.

In the classes in astronomy, we're taught a language called IDL to 
reduce scientific data and make images and diagrams. I often just 
use REBOL directly to make the diagrams. I've wanted many times to 
make a library of routines or a plotting application in REBOL, but 
haven't had the time yet. Maybe some day.

When it comes across a lit-word!, however, it reduces it to the word! 
of the same spelling.

This is how I think of it:

	lit-word!  -->  word!  -->  value

Anton: ok, that's clearer now.

Geomol: is creating a plotting dialect that hard ?

try this Kib:
>> a: 2
>> reduce [a]
>> reduce ['a]

and
>> reduce reduce ['a]

I wouldn't mind being able to set 3-4 months aside to create a complete 
graphing dialect.

Steeve: ok i've tried. But why the reduce output is a block ?