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[REBOL] Re: Tupleware

From: sanghabum:aol at: 23-Feb-2001 17:02

Hi Holger,
> If you need value sequences of arbitrary length then you have to use some > type > of series, probably a block of integers or a binary. IPv6 addresses will > probably > be a type by themselves, both because of the tuple limitation and because > having > a separate type allows them to be distinguished from other types by the > scanner.
Thanks for your detailed reply. I'd be very happy to see IPv6 addresses as built-in datatype. They are (or will soon become), fundamental identifiers on the Internet. You guys will have to write some nifty code to support them, but imagine the joy the rest us will have in writing code like: myIPAddress: make IP! 1.2.3.255 YourIPAddress: make IP! "0::1:2:3:ff" if myIPAddress = YourIPAddress [ print "same!] (Mine and your are the same address in this example, expressed in IPv4 and IPv6 formats). Regards, Colin.