[REBOL] Re: REBOL-SIMPLE dialect
From: carl:cybercraft at: 22-Aug-2008 23:12
On Thursday, 21-August-2008 at 7:18:46 Tim Johnson wrote,
>> Well spotted. Plus, given this was supposed to be an easy example for new
>> users to figure out, isn't it reasonable to assume that the questionmark is
>> part of REBOL's syntax and not just a character that's part of a word?
>> Afterall, colons are added to both the beginning and ends of words in
>> REBOL, so it stands to reason that a questionmark on the end of one
>> suggests they can be added to all words. ie...
> Hiya Carl:
> Might be good to check all type predicates for R3. Myself I've made use of
>only
> a few of the datatypes - but with REBOL3 coming along would be a good
> time to review them. Know that all tests are correct would "harden" rebol.
I've not touched R3 yet. Will wait until I've actually a need for it, since I've no
time just to play with it. (Plus I loath software upgrades. Seems there's one or two
a week these days if you've a reasonable amount of software installed, and with them
all having the potential to waste hours of your time should they stuff something up...)
> BTW: I noticed something interesting:
> >> source email?
>email?: native ["Returns TRUE for email values." value [any-type!] 43]
>
>Us "old hands" know that 'native means that this function is coded in C
>and compiled into the binary _But_ what does the number 43 mean?
>again email?: native ["Returns TRUE for email values." value [any-type!] 43]
Seems all the datatypes have a number...
>> source file?
file?: native ["Returns TRUE for file values." value [any-type!] 42]
so probably something as simple their addition to REBOL.
Is there to be a video datatype in R3? I see there's a video tag planned for HTML 5.
Hopefully REBOL plans to keep up.
-- Carl Read.
