[REBOL] Re: percent! - new datatype request
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 10-Jun-2002 10:30
Joel and Gabriele,
<<
JN> - providing a means for extending the syntax within dialects so
JN> that new forms could be added at the mezzanine level, or
MAKE DATATYPE! would be really cool. :) (Together with MAKE NATIVE!
;)
>>
That could be really cool, but don't datatypes have to fit into REBOL's
lexicon? The risk, of course, being that RT might have a very hard time
adding extensions themselves unless we had a specific namespace where user
datatypes lived. That pretty much bring us back to dialects, doesn't it?
--Gregg
