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in that regard, I wanted to ask Ladislav, about security - is it 
possible to protect system words, even to not be unprotected? :-) 
Imagine rebol would use system/locale for things like system messages 
in order to be translatable, but then someone could change the strings, 
which could be big security risk (user answering to different question)

what about extending secure scheme? to allow e.g. pre-boot, post-boot 
changes etc.? hmm, not sure it has a solution in my particular case, 
e.g. that I would like to hae system/locale translated, but then 
blocked against the changes ...

but that would not solve my case, if RT would do system/locale immutable, 
then I would not be able to change it. I though about protection 
by some kind of key, e.g., but dunno if it might work. at first change 
the key would be provided, for unprotect, the key would be needed 
...

protecting system/locale: if user cant run code, user cant change 
it. if user can run code, he does not need to change those strings.

is system/locale ever used for anything beyond the date requester? 
it would be nice if it were possible to localize date! type

take localisation into account (e.g. calendar does not use system/locale), 
and if you will implement set get for styles, it would be good to 
have it kind of rewrite methods .... set-face 'parameter value, not 
just set-face 'value - unnecessary limited :-)

>> 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"
    ]
]

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

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

not only that - it could be properly supported by sort/collation 
kind of functionality, as other environments do (mySQL). Rebol even 
does not use its system/locale in its own calendar ;-)

in that regard, I wanted to ask Ladislav, about security - is it 
possible to protect system words, even to not be unprotected? :-) 
Imagine rebol would use system/locale for things like system messages 
in order to be translatable, but then someone could change the strings, 
which could be big security risk (user answering to different question)