World: r3wp

yes, but this is a string format, not a rich-text format.  so the 
only formatting you can give it lines, tabs & spaces.

pre tag should always have had a  tag=""  paramter which allowed 
it to skip html content until it found a closing <pre> tag with the 
same tag attribute (my 2 cents).

also, historically R2 view had the "as-is" identifier which meant 
to preserve the formatting, but it was still limited to the language's 
lexical parser... this could be used instead. 


meaning roughly... don't interpret the stream of bytes as containing 
any codes, just use it as a stream of characters  "as-is"..

Nevertheless, Oldes is right, that <pre> uses escaping, so it is 
not analogical to heredoc in this respect

yes... I am trying to say we are doing  <pre> ... </pre>   since 
its roughly equivalent to  { ... }

*not trying*

(or, I should say to the heredoc syntax I am proposing, since it 
seems, that some heredocs use some escaping)

I'm just saying that "pre-formatted" is a nice differentiating term:

single-line, multi-line & pre-formatted.

single-line, multi-line, heredocs

Please stop fussing over the name and just stick with heredoc, which 
is a widely used and well-established notion.

Heck, there's even a Wikipedia page on it: "A here document (also 
called a here-document, a heredoc, a hereis, a here-string or a here-script) 
is a way of specifying a string literal"

Seconded, there is exactly *no* reason I can think of to give heredoc 
like strings a name other than "heredoc" string. Even stackoverflow.com 
features a heredoc tag.

all the more reason to be different!

sorry .. that's the rebolish way

Ultimately, Carl will choose. All we can do is weigh in with our 
votes, and cite what we think justifies our postiion. ;-) I will 
only say that "heredoc" brings to mind the following scene from Young 
Frankenstien:

Inga: Werewolf! 
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Werewolf? 
Igor: There. 
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What? 
Igor: There, wolf. There, castle. 
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Why are you talking that way? 
Igor: I thought you wanted to. 
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No, I don't want to. 
Igor: [shrugs] Suit yourself. I'm easy.

The closest thing to a heredoc in html is a cdata section.

Not a pre.

And finally, it doesn't matter what we call it. The names of these 
syntax types won't appear in code, just in docs. So stick to the 
standard.

Graham, the REBOL way is to rename things if there is a good reason 
to do so, not just at random :)

Actually, I think a pre is closer to heredoc than CDATA.
CDATA is strictly speaking for XML or XHTML. not HTML.

And CDATA only, in effect, protects unescaped <, > and & from being 
interpreted as mark-up.

Perhaps, more importantly for the heredoc issue, whitespace is not 
guaranteed to be left as-is in CDATA:
   http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.2
But it certainly does not matter to me what we call it :)

Regarding order of function parameters ... eg.  REPLACE target search 
replace /all /case /tail


it's probably not as intuitive to read ... but if you had  REPLACE 
search replace target /all /case /tail

this would aid processing the output of other functions

So, instead of 


replace some series of functions here which returns a string but 
I've got to end this stream with replace target

I could do


replace  replace target   some series of functions here which returns 
a string but I've got to end this stream with

with the aim of passing the output of one function to another in 
a chain

Graham, I agree.

Or, how about a switch that allows you to change the order of the 
arguments?

Then you might want to change all the other funcs that take the target 
series as their first arg as well. 

I'm OK with the existing arg order.

Any short hint, how I can use an http URL like: www.domain.com/script`?par1="abc"?par2=123

Something like this?
    domain: http://www.domain.com/script`
    parameters: {par1="abc"?par2=123}
    reply: read/custom domain compose [GET (parameters)]

Thanks, I will try it.

o: context [test: 123]
append h o
n: context [n2: context [h]]

Above is just a concept of what I want which is to create an object 
with an object that contains the object(s) held within h block. I've 
tried compose/deep binds and just about everything else I could think 
of.

The context of this is I have created objects which are held in a 
global block represented by h. I then have to  put these all together 
as one object. I just can't get rebol to do that. I always get a 
rather empty object.

Does this do it?
    h: copy []
    o: context [test: 123]
    append h o
 
    n: context []
    foreach entry h [n: make n entry]

Thanks Sunanda. I'll try that. Carl was just here looking at the 
code (How humiliating) and telling me why mine wouldn't work. OOPs.

Wow, you had a lesson from the master!
Remember to add a comment to the final code:
     Designed in collaberation with: Carl Sasserath.

:-) It was more like "you call yourself a reboller?"

hehe... let me guess, you had objects, which had methods?   ;-D

No it was like the stuff above.

See Wagner / Tannhäuser. anectdote: 
    http://www.workjoke.com/musicians-jokes.html

Yes, that's me.

On Windows 7, is there a known reason that REBOL, doing a read %., 
would not return all the files in a dir? I can only think security/permissions 
are at play somehow. I need to test more, but as a quick test, you 
could open windows/system32/ in explorer and look at its file count, 
then do a READ on that dir and see if you get a different result.

This is my attempt at a function that returns the object or value 
at the end of the given path.  If there is nothing at the given path, 
it returns none.

  get-obj-value: func [ obj [object!] path [path! word!]
        /local id 
    ][  
        if word? path [ path: to-path path ]
        either not empty? path [
            either all [ 
                id: in obj path/1  
                obj: get id 
            ][
                either 1 = length? path [
                    return obj
                ][
                    either object? obj [
                        get-obj-value obj remove copy path
                    ][
                        return none
                    ]
                ]
            ][
                return none
            ]
        ][ obj ]
    ]

improvements appreciated

The reason for this is I am converting deeply nested xml into rebol 
objects and I don't know what the final object will turn out to be 
....

Hi, solving a problem with file! values in different filesystems. 
I need to handle case-insensitive filesystems differently, than the 
case-sensitive ones. Does REBOL already offer the information, whether 
the filesystem in question is case-sensitive?

Not as far as I know,
You could probe the system like this:
    write %tmp "one length"
    write %TMP "another length"

    either (get in info? %tmp 'size) = (get in info? %TMP 'size) ['insensitive]['sensitive]

Yes, that is what I was afraid of. (this is problematic, if you are 
not allowed to create new files) OK, Robert and I have agreed, that 
we keep INCLUDE case-insensitive (for file comparisons), and put 
the information into the documentation.

Ladislav, how about reading the root directory, find a camel-cased 
file, lower/uppercase it and ask if the file exists?

of course depending if the file doesn't happen to exist.

(not totally reliable)

again, this may not work if you are not allowed to read the root 
directory

nevermind, the solution we use for INCLUDE looks like sufficient, 
I will document how it works.

I guess also it's a problem for networked drives. The file sharing 
mechanism might offer incorrect information as to what the case sensitivity 
for the file system being shared, is.

Right, it is a complicated matter, that is why it looks better to 
use an "acceptable" solution instead of trying to implement a "perfect" 
solution