[REBOL] Re: REBOL/Core Docs, Appendix 1 Updated
From: cyphre:seznam:cz at: 14-Aug-2003 12:58
Hi Andrew,
...
> > email: [luke--rebol--com]
> > probe email/user
> > luke
> > probe email/host
> > rebol.com
> > ---------------------------------
> >
> > Nice! Was this ever mentioned in some docs before? I didn't know about
> that possibility :-)
>
> Page 471 of the Core PDF for version 2.3. :)
>
Ah, I never read thru all of those "newer" docs :-) Looks like my old, rusty
Rebol knowledge should be updated ;-)
> I'd also like this problem fixed:
>
> >> x: [test/foo:bar/dot]
> == [test/foo:bar/dot]
> >> type? x/1/2
> == url!
> >> probe x/1/2
> foo:bar/dot
> == foo:bar/dot
>
> Note that the second part of the path! value is interpreted by Rebol as a
> URL!.
>
> >> x: [test/http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html/dot]
> == [test/http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html/dot]
> >> type? x/1/2
> == url!
> >> probe x/1/2
> http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html/dot
> == http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html/dot
>
> Putting a URL! value inside a path! value seems illogical to me. After
all,
> I can't access this with path! notation:
>
> >> test: [http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html [dot 123]]
> == [http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html [dot 123]]
> >> test/http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html/dot
> ** Script Error: Invalid path value:
> http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html/dot
> ** Near: test/http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html/dot
>
Looks like there are more issues regarding the path usage...Would be good to
have the path syntax more consistent in those cases.
regards,
Cyphre
