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[REBOL] Re: [parse] Special characters in block parsing

From: rotenca:telvia:it at: 3-Apr-2005 19:44

Arie van Wingerden wrote:
>What I find strange however is that specifying '/ is an invalid lit-word >but to-lit-word "/" is not. >This looks like a contradiction to me... >Any ideas why this works that way (and I am glad it does ;-) ? >
The problem is that the loader (load) understands only a subset of Rebol value. This is a need, because load must assign a different datatype to the value when the string start with % or < or " or # or is in the form 2-2-2005 o [aa--sdf] and so on. A word in rebol by itself can have ANY syntax, examples of valid rebol words: to-word "a%" to-word "3^"" But load does not understand them. Other examples: to-word "2-2-1004" to-word "31" to-word "3.5e4" to-word "a/b/c" and also: to-word ":a" to-word "a:" to-word "'a" to-word "/a" Also a 0 char can be in a word: mold to-word "^@b" ;== "^@b" A solution to the problem could be the implementation of the mold construct: #[lit-word! "/"] -- Ciao Romano Paolo Tenca