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[REBOL] Re: A comment to Carl's blog

From: antonr:lexicon at: 21-Oct-2004 16:38

Well, I agree it is a bit ambiguous, but if you think that rebol operates left to right, then you can see that the get-word :n happens before the set-word n: The second possible meaning: I imagine if it was wanted that way, you could be able to write: data/:(n: 150 'n) or data/(150) since you already know the value of n or know how to calculate n. I don't see it's very useful to set 'n just to be used as a temporary value in a path. However, it got me thinking... Perhaps temporary variables could be used further down the path. ie. data/(n: 150)/(n + 1) is equivalent to: data/150/151 Another idea is perhaps if data is a block which contains a name/value pair, then you could access 'name inside the parens. eg: data: [index 3 a b c d e] data/(index + 2) ;== c or data: [header 4 index 3 a b c d e] data/(header + index) ;== c Just some ideas. Anton.