[REBOL] Re: Parsing comment
From: carl:cybercraft at: 25-Sep-2002 16:53
On 25-Sep-02, Gabriele Santilli wrote:
> Also, the whole idea is that REBOL is dynamic. It couldn't be if
> there was punctuation. I.e.:
> print a + b
> DOES NOT have a meaning, unless evaluated under some rules and
> some context. When you use syntax to give meaning (as opposed to
> context), you are imposing artificial limits. Whether they are
> useful or not, depends. I think that the point of REBOL is
> simplifying, also by removing some artificial limits.
And we can have...
print + a b
which is more functional, shall we say, but can we write functions
that behave like operators? (Or can we write operators, for that
matter.) ...
>> + 1 2
== 3
>> 1 + 2
== 3
>> sum: func [a b][a + b]
>> sum 1 2
== 3
>> 1 sum 2
** Script Error: sum is missing its b argument
** Near: sum 2
Can it be done?
--
Carl Read
