Mailing List Archive: Re: Slashdot REBOL mention

[REBOL] Re: Slashdot REBOL mention

From: joel:neely:fedex at: 30-Oct-2001 10:56


Hi, Ladislav,

I guess we used different operator precedence...  ;-)

Ladislav Mecir wrote:
> I don't think REBOL is any more English-like than any other dialecting
> language such as, say, Tcl. (Or Perl, for that matter.)
>

I parsed it as

    I don't think REBOL is any more English-like than (
        (any other dialecting language such as, say, Tcl)
        or
        (Perl)
    )

instead of

    I don't think REBOL is any more English-like than
    any other dialecting language, such as, say (
        Tcl
        or
        Perl
    )

My perception, as a long-time user of Perl, is that one might describe
Tcl as a "dialecting language"  (for some senses of the word "dialecting"),
but I would never say that about Perl.

-jn-

--
; sub REBOL {}; sub head ($) {@_[0]}
REBOL []
# despam: func [e] [replace replace/all e ":" "." "#" "@"]
; sub despam {my ($e) = @_; $e =~ tr/:#/.@/; return "\n$e"}
print head reverse despam "moc:xedef#yleen:leoj" ;