[REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 20-Mar-2002 8:58
Hi, Charles,
Charles wrote:
> Since # doesn't do anything, it's all good to include it.
> Pretty spiffy. Of course, if you try:
> >> $ "hi"
> You end up with "Syntax Error: Invalid money -- $". I'm
> sort of curious why it doesn't give you "Invalid issue"...
>
There's a short answer; an issue is a kind of series (of the
any-string! variety). It's perfectly legal for a string (or
any other series flavor) to have a length of zero, as in
""
{}
[]
or
#
but it's not syntactically valid to have a number which
contains no digits.
-jn-
