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[REBOL] Re: Rebol Product Suggestion.

From: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 24-Jun-2001 12:09

Hello Joel! On 23-Giu-01, you wrote: JN> Your remarks are inspiring, as usual! (Of course there's JN> a fine line between inspiration and madness. ;-) ;-) JN> Unless RT adds a primitive that's the equivalent of JN> do decrypt somestring JN> somestring: "" JN> (per a discussion at least a year ago on this list). Yes, but then again with proper reverse engeneering one could get to the source anyway. A "lossy" conversion, instead, guarantees that noone can get to the original source in any way. JN> propercase: func [ JN> {capitalize first letter only of a string} JN> s [string!] {original string - unchanged} JN> ][ JN> head change lowercase copy s uppercase copy/part s 1 JN> ] what about: propercase: func [s] [head lowercase next uppercase/part copy s 1] JN> result: copy nextsep: "" BTW, in these cases I usually write: result: clear "" ; ... copy result because that will probably require less memory allocations. After calling the function a couple times, indeed, the result buffer will automatically end up being as large as needed and no more memory allocations and copying will be needed in future calls, except for the explicit final copy. (Well, I couldn't resist giving my $0.02. :) JN> And apply rules such as: JN> - Remove comments. ;-comments will be removed by load. String comments could be removed automatically in places such as function definitions etc., but maybe it would be better if is the programmer to manually remove them. JN> - Never allow meaningful names This can be done by changing non-system words and by aliasing system words. Human intervention may be necessary in some cases. JN> - Use names hard to distinguish I'd say completely random. :) JN> - Replace simple constants/expressions with more obscure JN> expressions Mainly for strings, so that they are not easyly readable by the intruder . JN> 8<-------------------------------------------------------- JN> capitalize: func [ I1l1I [string!] /local O0Ol0 IIOOO ] [ JN> O0Ol0: func [ OO01O [series!] O00I0 [string! char!] /local JN> OOOIO O0010 ] [ OOOIO: copy O0010: copy tail mold 17 foreach JN> O0OIO OO01O [ repend OOOIO [O0010 O0OIO] O0010: O00I0 ] JN> OOOIO ] IIOOO: func [ IIOOI [block! hash! string!] IIOO1 JN> [any-function!] /IIO0I /local II000 III0l ] [ II000: make JN> type? IIOOI length? IIOOI foreach II1Ol IIOOI [ if any [ JN> found? III0l: IIOO1 II1Ol IIO0I ] [ append/only II000 III0l JN> ] ] II000 ] O0Ol0 IIOOO parse I1l1I none func [ lOOO1 JN> [string!] ] [ head change lowercase copy lOOO1 uppercase JN> copy/part lOOO1 index? head lOOO1 ] to-string to-char 32 ] JN> 8<-------------------------------------------------------- This is a very good example of what I intended. Thanks Joel! JN> yet know how to program the required knowledge. I'll be JN> fascinated to see any progress you might make! Good luck! I'll need luck, I know! :-) But I think it can be done to some extent, as long as either the programmer helps the tool doing the conversion or (s)he writes the source code in a format that can be easyly automatically processed (giving hints to the processor, that is). Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[giesse--writeme--com]> - Amigan - REBOL programmer Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila -- http://www.amyresource.it/AGI/