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[REBOL] Re: I hate computers!

From: edanaii:cox at: 6-Jan-2003 8:00

Ladislav Mecir wrote:
>Hi Ed, > >you wrote: > >>As was pointed out to me earlier, the use of Any-Type! seems to make a >>parameter optional. Were I to define a parameter as such: Parameter [ >>String! Money! ], if I omit the parameter when called, it blows up. But >>with any-type!, it doesn't. So this was a means to have multiple >>parameters and have it optional. This would allow me to do some >>overloading, i.e. fall Foo with a String performs a different action >>than Foo with Money or Foo without a parameter. >> >> > >you can use this: > > f: func [parameter [string! money! unset!] [ > ... > ] > >to have an optional parameter. >
Ah hah! That's another thing I didn't know I could do. Never thought of Unset as a datatype. At this rate, I should get this language figured out in about 50 years. :) -- Sincerely, | Control is an illusion, you infantile egomaniac! Ed Dana | Nobody knows what's gonna happen next: not on a Software Developer | freeway, not in an airplane, not inside our own 1Ghz Athlon Amiga | bodies and certainly not on a racetrack with 40 | other infantile egomaniacs! | -- Nicole Kidman, Days of Thunder