[REBOL] Re: XML.com Embedded Markup Considered Harmful [Oct. 02, 1997]
From: reffy:ulrich at: 13-Oct-2002 7:06
If I only had Rebol's graphics, communications, database, and who knows what other capabilities
!! ORRRRRR, if only Rebol had generalized arrays ??
I originally chirped in on the XML comments ...
Seems that there should be an XML_Display, HTML_Display and other such ways of taking
elemental values and wrapping them up.
XML_Display (25 87 20) (date) (2 2 ReshapeOf 4 Random 1000) (UCase "Hello World")
<VECTOR LENGTH=4>
<VECTOR LENGTH=3>
<SCALAR DATATYPE="NUMERIC">25</SCALAR>
<SCALAR DATATYPE="NUMERIC">87</SCALAR>
<SCALAR DATATYPE="NUMERIC">20</SCALAR>
</VECTOR>
<STRING>Sun Oct 13 07:00:24 2002</STRING>
<ARRAY RANK=2 SHAPE=2,2>
<SCALAR DATATYPE="NUMERIC">12</SCALAR>
<SCALAR DATATYPE="NUMERIC">987</SCALAR>
<SCALAR DATATYPE="NUMERIC">82</SCALAR>
<SCALAR DATATYPE="NUMERIC">132</SCALAR>
</ARRAY>
<STRING>HELLO WORLD</STRING>
</VECTOR>
> Dick, looks to me like you are designing a dialect (language with a specific
> focus), one that perhaps takes inspiration from APL.
>
> Regards,
> Brett.
You have a good eye, Brett :-)
