[REBOL] Problem with try [ open/direct/binary tcp://... ] Re:(8)
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 3-Oct-2000 7:22
It appears that using a block as the second argument, when the first
argument is of any-string! type, causes the contents of the block
be treated as strings.
>> join #{} ['foo 123 :fum]
== #{666F6F3132333F66756E6374696F6E3F}
>> to-string join #{} ['foo 123 :fum]
== "foo123?function?"
[giesse--dsiaq1--ing--univaq--it] wrote:
[snip]
> INSERT shouldn't use FORM when inserting a BINARY!. I'm sending
> this to feedback too (I don't remember if I had already signaled
> this to feedback...).
>
Do you mean "shouldn't" in the sense of
1) "contradicts the official specification", or
2) "doesn't do what I expected", or
3) "doesn't seem to me to do The Right Thing"?
Please understand, I'm not criticizing your remark! It's just that
option (1) requires that there BE an accessible specification. If
there is one which I've overlooked, I'll be VERY grateful if you
will tell me where it is (and it may very well be Carl's massive
tome of yesterday evening -- I just haven't finished reading it!)
Of course, I generally hold your experienced expectations -- as
in (2) -- or your good taste in programming -- as in (3) -- in
very high regard!
-jn-
