Mailing List Archive: Rebol Enhancement Proposal - Embedding spaces in path! datatypes

[REBOL] Rebol Enhancement Proposal - Embedding spaces in path! datatypes

From: al::bri::xtra::co::nz at: 9-May-2001 21:04

See the last message in the thread for examples of pick.


Normal path! datatypes look like this:
        word/sub-word/sub-sub-word
    Currently Rebol doesn't understand strings in a path. I'm proposing that
Rebol should return things using a string as a path. For example:

block: [
    "A string with spaces" [
        Test [
            Item 99
            ]
        ]
    ]

To refer to "99" it would be nice if Rebol understood the following as a
path:
        block/"A string with spaces"/Test/Item
    and for convenience the following format:
        /"block/A string with spaces/Test/Item"
    Both of the above will return "99. The last format is based on Rebol's
format for long filenames with embedded spaces, like:
        %"Directory/Sub-Directory/My File.txt"

Opinions? Problems?

Andrew Martin
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