[REBOL] Re: SKIP with *very* large values
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 18-May-2002 10:06
Hi, Carl and Romano,
Carl Read wrote:
> On 18-May-02, Romano Paolo Tenca wrote:
>
> > Skip and others functions accept a number! datatype.
>
> > I don't find any documentation about this datatype in Core.
>
> > Where is it? Or it does not exist?
>
> It's a type of meta-datatype (there's no doubt a correct term:) that
> can refer to a group of specific datatypes in the same way the
> series! datatype refers to string, blocks and so on. Thus integer!
> and decimal! datatypes are both also number! datatypes...
>
I think the REBOL documentation (somewhere) calls these "metatypes".
For those who know other languages, I'd say that they are closer
to the Java concept of "interface" than the Smalltalk concept of
supertype
-- although the REBOL type system isn't at all OO.
-jn-
--
; Joel Neely joeldotneelyatfedexdotcom
REBOL [] do [ do func [s] [ foreach [a b] s [prin b] ] sort/skip
do function [s] [t] [ t: "" foreach [a b] s [repend t [b a]] t ] {
| e s m!zauafBpcvekexEohthjJakwLrngohOqrlryRnsctdtiub} 2 ]
