[REBOL] Re: REBOL "issues"
From: dukeofperl:ml1 at: 6-Nov-2010 5:51
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Sunanda wrote:
>
> > Am I to understand that _all_ issues have the _#_ prefix? If so, then
> > are binary values "issues" as well? From the above document:
> >
> > #{42652061205245424F4C}
>
> The documentation is a little unclear there.
>
> Or, from another perspective, # is somewhat overloaded:
>
> #{....} is binary!
> #"." is character!
> #.... is issue!
>
> An issue! cannot contain a opening or closing brace, nor can it contain
> a double quote, so the three uses of # are quite separate.
So _exactly_ what is the significance of _#_?
BTW, is "overloading" a REBOL practice that I'll be discovering to be
the rule and not the exception? :)
--
Duke
