[REBOL] Re: Cunning use of [], () & {} in R# and in future? Rebol versions?
From: ingo:2b1 at: 19-Oct-2003 21:45
Hi Maxim,
Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch wrote:
<...>
> advanced features get used by advanced users... a lot of the code I see from
> the guru is hard to read for me, simply because it uses tricks I have not
> stumbled on yet... The words are all similar, but when looking at them, they
> seem to have no meaning.
Yup, been there, done that, but didn't even get the T-Shirt ;-)
> have you tried going through all the view code... there is much to learn, but
> darn some of it is almost impossible to grasp.
Right again.
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>>excerpt: func [
>
> [...]
>
>>]
>
> cool func !!
> ----------------
>
> don't want to look picky but
> a: 1
> b: 5
> excerpt b [a to b]
<...>
It's no problem to write the dialect to understand this (at least, once
you understand how the 'layout dialect works (which, incidentally, I don't)).
Any takers?
Ingo
