[REBOL] Re: URL & setword bugs
From: carl:cybercraft at: 18-Aug-2002 18:00
On 18-Aug-02, Paul Tretter wrote:
> The first part you referenced is not a problem. We often set
> multiple values this way - such as:
> this: that: none
> This way everything can be set to none.
Yes, but in the example there was no space between the colon and the
string. ie, this works (but probably shouldn't)...
>> this:"a string"
== "a string"
>> ? this
THIS is a string of value: "a string"
while this doesn't...
>> that:none
== that:none
>> ? that
No information on that (word has no value)
> Gotta be careful with this though as some datatypes have problems
> doing this.
> And for your second example the test:i would be getting the value at
> index 'i and not setting do to the placement of the ":".
> try:
> change test/:i "BBBB"
A possible conflict with using...
test/:i:
is that 'i could be interpreted as both a get-word and a set-word. It
would be useful, but then maybe it'd open a can of words.
> Paul Tretter
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Martin" <[Al--Bri--xtra--co--nz]>
> To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 6:46 PM
> Subject: [REBOL] URL & setword bugs
>> Joel wrote:
>> Does anybody besides me think that this should be reported as a
>> bug?
>> As shown by Joel on the mailing list:
>>>> type? garbage:"trash"
>> == string!
>>>> foo: garbage:"trash"
>> == "trash"
>>>> foo
>> == "trash"
>> I feel that garbage:"trash" should result in a syntax error.
>> And:
>>>> test: ["a" "b" "c" "d"]
>> == ["a" "b" "c" "d"]
>>>> i: 2
>> == 2
>>>> test/:i: "BBBB"
>> ** Syntax Error: Invalid word -- :i:
>> ** Near: (line 1) test/:i: "BBBB"
>> I feel that test/2 should now be "BBBB" instead of the syntax
>> error.
>> After all the following works:
>>>> test
>> == ["a" "b" "c" "d"]
>>>> test/:i/1: #"z"
>> == "z"
>>>> test
>> == ["a" "z" "c" "d"]
>> I've notified feedback of this problem.
>> Andrew Martin
>> ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/
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