[REBOL] Re: Looking over the horizon - Rebol 3
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 10-Nov-2003 13:29
Hi Joel et al,
>> * Lots more datatypes! ...
JN> ...in regard to data types: ... Fully document the existing ones.
I vote for this as well.
>> * A way to access words outside of the current context...
JN> Could you give an example of what this means and how it would be
JN> used/useful? I must confess that I don't understand it at all.
I wasn't sure either, except as a shortcut to how we might do it
today.
JN> * Regular Expressions as well as parse, which acts much like Perl's
JN> regexp.
A while back I looked at PCRE, but didn't get it working in the small
amount of time I allotted myself, and shelved it. If someone could get
that working, it would be something. Yes, you would need a commercial
version of REBOL to access the DLL, but better than nothing.
I've tinkered with PARSE a bit as well, to see how that would work for
building a regex engine, but there are a lot of things to consider, so
I just dust it off occasionally and think about it a bit. I might
pursue it more if I thought I might actually use it myself. ;)
I agree that non-REBOLers would notice it as a desirable element.
JN> 4) either an implementation of RT's module facility or a statement
JN> that it has been dropped (or deferred indefinitely... ;-)
Yes!
-- Gregg
