[REBOL] Re: Personal Programming and Rebol Promotion
From: petr:krenzelok:seznam:cz at: 23-Dec-2007 10:14
Nick Antonaccio napsal(a):
> Hi Paavo,
>
> Just tonight, a reader from my site wrote to say that in the past, all
> the documentation he had previously read had led him to misunderstood
> the syntax of a simple 'if expression, originally thinking that the
> conditional evaluation needed to be placed in brackets (which made
> every condition always evaluate to true...). Even things like that
> can be tripping blocks for newcomers, so I agree that obfuscated code
> can be totally unfathomable.
>
> With that said, it is important to recognize common code patterns and
> Rebolisms that are fast and short in expression, even if they're hard
> to read at first. I don't know that common (more difficult to read)
> syntax necessarily needs to be avoided and replaced with obvious
> patterns. (If they're common, they _should_ be internalized).
> Instead, what I missed in the beginning with Rebol was more documented
> examples ... I mean the kind of detailed, line by line documentation
> needed to understand each expression, as well as the overall structure
> of a script.
Hi,
dunno if following might help, but Carl once wrote suggested REBOL code
formatting, and it is part of REBOL/Core documentation. It really helps
if guys keep some rules, e.g. I absolutly hate, if someone uses
something like:
hello: func
[
greeting
]
[
print greeting
]
:-) Here's link for suggested code patterns (although I know you have
something a bit different in mind with code patterns probably):
http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-5.html#section-5
Petr
