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[REBOL] Re: Sameness - a pragmatic approach.

From: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 12-Feb-2003 1:21

Hi Joel, On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 11:13:43 PM, you wrote: JN> 1) It's not clear to me what problem ALIAS is supposed to solve; Translations. If you wanted to translate REBOL or any REBOL dialect into another human language (i.e. not English). JN> 2) It's not clear to me why ALIASes must be immutable; Because once you have said that "stampa" is a different spelling for "print", the current implementation is no more able to "undo" this, probably for the same reason why words cannot be removed from contexts. Of course, AFAIK. (I strongly agree that we need more documentation.) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r