[REBOL] Re: Core 2.6 - Last minute requests - take your chance!
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 7-Apr-2002 11:54
Thanks, Holger...
... for your speedy and comprehensive reply! Speaking for myself
(but I'm sure the others on the list will agree!) you continue to
make very important contributions to this list (and to those of
us who want to understand and use REBOL better) by your excellent
communications. Thanks again!
Holger Kruse wrote:
> Yes, we will have to do one of those things... I don't know if
> this will make it into 2.6 though.
>
Yes, I understand that the clock can be a harsh taskmaster...
> > 2) Fixing the *VERY* troubling mangling of arguments from
> > the command line:
> >
> > rebol this is "a test" of arguments
> >
> > >> system/script/args
> > == "is a test of arguments"
>
> This is intentional behavior. system/script/args contains a
> concatenation of all arguments. Note that in your example "this"
> is not considered an argument, but the name of the script, so it
> does not appear in the string.
>
Right. I just typed some words to show what happened to the
quoted string in the middle, but my trivial example may have
been misleading.
>
> No, quote removal in parse has nothing to do with quote removal
> in command line args. Quote removal in parse is a result of /all
> not being aggressive enough in changing the set of delimiters.
> Quote removal in arguments is done by the operating system.
>
Thanks for the clarification!!!
-jn-
--
; Joel Neely joeldotneelyatfedexdotcom
REBOL [] do [ do func [s] [ foreach [a b] s [prin b] ] sort/skip
do function [s] [t] [ t: "" foreach [a b] s [repend t [b a]] t ] {
| e s m!zauafBpcvekexEohthjJakwLrngohOqrlryRnsctdtiub} 2 ]