[REBOL] Re: On mutability and sameness
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 6-Jun-2001 9:11
Hi, again,
Minor update to previous message...
Ladislav Mecir wrote:
> I am pretty sure, that the feature you are describing is not a
> bug. The reason for the behaviour is pretty simple. Rebol values
> of type TUPLE! DATE! INTEGER! and some other types are immutable...
>
The oddity I described appears to reside in the /DATE "refinement"
itself, based on this:
>> a: now == 6-Jun-2001/9:05:53-5:00
>> a/date == 6-Jun-2001
>> a/date/date == 6-Jun-2001
>> a/date/date/date/date/date/day == 6
so that /DATE behaves less like a component selector and more like
a function that takes a (complete) DATE! value and returns another
DATE! value with the TIME! component set to none.
-jn-
