[REBOL] Re: [Fwd: Re: RSL: Rebol Standard Library]
From: chris:starforge at: 24-May-2001 19:21
#24-May-01# Message from *Joel Neely*:
Hi Joel,
> In my desire not to inflict a war-and-peace email on the list,
> I left out some of the rationale...
> The reasons I've suggested the <UHURU ...>...</UHURU> part are:
<snip>
I see. I was just exercising the REBOL equivalent of Occam's razor - all the
features could be done using nothing but REBOL's internals. But if there are
good reasons, as you outline here, an XML intro would serve the project
better.
>> This way scripts could use their UHURU (we really need a better
>> acronym I'm afraid ;)) ...
> StarTrek Classic fans everywhere are priming their flamethrowers!
> ;-)
Wasn't that Uhura? (Not a ST fan so..)
> As mentioned above, I'd like to see if we can avoid burdening the
> loadable REBOL code with non-executable content, but at the same
> time make it easy to supply that *with* the code. For example,
> a page-long narrative on a non-trivial object, along with usage
> samples, would be quite a bit of overhead to read through just
> to load the object def itself, IMHO.
Hmm.. we're getting into Holy War subjects here ;) I guess stripped
versions would be good, but as a heavy commenter the idea of
commentless code is somewhat abhorrent ;))
Chris
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