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[REBOL] Leo => #@-others

From: jason::cunliffe::verizon::net at: 20-Sep-2002 9:21

These past couple days I am exploring an incredible meta-programming called 'Leo'. Meta-programming because it lets you program how programs are built. It lets you have different views onto the same content and its easy to combine source code with any other kind of information, such as notes, docs, correspondence, ideas.. Its written in Python and is free, openSource like most Python packages. It's based on Donald Knuth's 'Literate Programming' ideas. Leo is aimed at improving the organization and control of complex software programming projects. It does this via a deceptively simple idea-outliner tree structure interface. Leo uses special embedded symbols to connect and assign the import and export of its contents. Meta-publishing via meta-tags. It also exposes the entire engine underneath to a Python API. You can pop open shell and hack away. Leo files are structure trees saved as XML. I have just been poking around Leo's XML files with Gavin's xml-object. [thanks!] and also writing rebol inside of Leo. Leo is fascinating and makes one think of all kinds of other uses too. I think many of you here would enjoy to experiment with it, if/when you find time. There's also intriguing potential for a rather different rebolutionary version, as well as using Leo with Rebol. Leo embeds special tags which ordinarily might get in the way, but rebol is forgiving as you know. Thus Leo's header tags a ignored because of Rebol's outermost wrapper block. yay! and then curiously the magical in-line inserts Leo uses to place content from elsewhere in its tree also proves harmless.. What am I talking about you ask//? Within the main Leo tree outline is a node for my rebol script: -overview @file leotest.r notes story ideas etc The contents of my rebol node looks like this: @file leotest2.r [ REBOL[] print ["hello from leotest.r"] @others ] The 'notes' node contains: notes: {What are the rule for where these have to be?} and the 'story' node contains: story: {This is a story about love and truth and beauty} @file means when I 'save' the whole structure, Leo writes to the file named leotest.r @others means include the contents of any nodes below here. Saving produces the final "leotest.r" script -------------------------------------------- #@+leo #@+node:0::@file leotest2.r #@+body #@@file leotest2.r [ REBOL[] print ["hello from leotest2.r"] #@+others #@+node:1:C=1:notes #@+body notes: {What are the rule for where these have to be?} #@-body #@-node:1:C=1:notes #@+node:2::story #@+body story: {This is a story about love and truth and beauty} #@-body #@-node:2::story #@-others ] #@-body #@-node:0::@file leotest2.r #@-leo This an extremely trivial example. But it demonstrates how one can organize content in a completely different way and then merge them very easily. Lo, when I open REBOL to run my script I get this:
>> do %leotest2.r
hello from leotest2.r == #@-others
>> notes
== "What are the rule for where these have to be?"
>> story
== "This is a story about love and truth and beauty" REBOL just ignores all Leo's meta-junk. Firstly because it's outside the main block, then because of this:
>> type? #@-others
== email! That's good news. Leo lets you import and export in clever ways. In many respects REBOL does not need such as tool because REBOL code is so much shorted and easier to understand.. or is it. I only know about very small utilities. I've not built anything big yet. Though I'd like too. I hope some of you do get a chance to pay with this. There is a very remarkable set of ideas here, some of which may find their own rebolistic uses. Especially if one combines implicit rebol messaging, and retunes the application towards collaborative business scenarios, workflow needs etc. HOME PAGE http://personalpages.tds.net/~edream/front.html RAVES http://personalpages.tds.net/~edream/testimonials.html#anchor104391 TUTORIAL http://www.evisa.com/e/sbooks/leo/sbframetoc_ie.htm USERS GUIDE http://personalpages.tds.net/~edream/leo_TOC.html#anchor964914 API http://personalpages.tds.net/~edream/scripting.html#anchor612831 ./Jason