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[REBOL] Re: Personal Programming and Rebol Promotion

From: pwawood::gmail::com at: 24-Dec-2007 10:19

Hi Nick I messed up the link when I copied it: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/art-display- article.r?article=j98t On Sunday, December 23, 2007, at 11:49 pm, Nick Antonaccio wrote:
> Hi Peter,
I messed up the link when I copied it: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/art-display- article.r?article=j98t
> Somehow, I'd never really paid much attention to those "documentation" > links on each Rebol.org script (I think I'd maybe checked a few, years > ago, and never found any content).
Quite recently, Brian Tiffin spent a lot of his time documenting many un-owned scripts.
> It strikes me that since Rebol.org is likely one of the first places > that newcomers go to read through code, that's a great solution, and > one that new users should be made more aware of on the main > documentation page at rebol.com. Maybe a "documentation" link right > in the search results at rebol.org would make such materials more > immediately apparent to newcomers.
I'll see if I can help Sunanda come up with something. I know he's very busy at the moment.
> Also, you are correct - "square brackets" is more definitive.
That's just because I'm English and I really didn't know that Americans refer to brackets as parentheses in everyday language. In everyday English () are brackets, they are only parentheses in mathematical and scientific use. Regards Peter