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[REBOL] Re: A comment to Carl's blog

From: antonr::lexicon::net at: 22-Oct-2004 2:58

They are ideas for possible future implmentation. See comments interspersed:
> Interesting comments Anton, however, I can't see how any of this > could work... > > data/:(n: 150 'n) > > Here you have a Get-Paren. What's a Get-Paren? Parens are > automatically evaluated....
That's right. The paren is evaluated first, and the result could be combined with the colon to become a get-word. Or that's the idea, anyway. Perhaps a get-paren! datatype would need to be created to support that idea, and maybe not.
> data/(index + 2) > > The equivelant to that would be... > > pick data index + 2 > > since index wasn't given a value then it would throw an error.
In this, my next idea, it gets the value from "context" or block specified by that level of the path. A more complex example: data: [sub [felafel 16 flatbread 1 ... ]] data/sub/(felafel + 4) which would access the 20th element of data/sub. I repeat, they are just ideas. Obviously they don't work now, but all the good stuff we are getting now started off just as ideas too. Note that I haven't thought of any really good uses for the above ideas yet, but they may occur to me later. Anton.