[REBOL] Re: saving Rebol
From: carl:cybercraft at: 24-Nov-2000 19:19
On 24-Nov-00, Graham Chiu wrote:
> In Forth, when you add new words to the dictionary, you can
> save the new forth image so that when executed again, all
> the new words are retained.
> Is there something like this in Rebol?
Can't help you with that one, but...
> And what's the Rebol way of doing conditional compilation?
> I would have guessed something like
> if ( not exists? clean-script )
> [ do %clean-script.r ]
> but exists? only works on files and urls.
You can see if words exist using value? So, assuming clean-script.r
creates a word called 'clean-script-flag, the following should work
for you...
if ( not value? 'clean-script-flag )
[ do %clean-script.r ]
Hope that's of some use.
Carl Read.
