[REBOL] Re: Send/attach
From: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 26-Nov-2003 19:47
Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2003 18:45 schrieb Steven White:
> Romano,
>
> THANK YOU!
>
> So parts of REBOL are written in...REBOL! Those RT guys are quite the
> hackers.
>
Eventually RT should mention that more?
> A few items:
>
> 1. My cutting and pasting operation broke a couple long lines into two
> lines, and caused some syntax errors. I was able to fix that.
>
echo %sourcecollection.r
then every rebol-output will be written to file too.
so typing all the "source something" gives you a nice editable file.
> 2. In your note I believe you meant "source send" instead of "source
> send-mail." I got by that also.
>
> 3. The code contained a "now/precise" which seems to not exist in my
> AIX REBOL. The "precise" refinement seemed to be non-essential, so I
> just deleted it, leaving only "now."
>
now/precise has fractions of a second
(lots of digits. don't know if the internal clock is really that precise).
Usefull for benchmarking, or when you need unique keys.
if second-precision is ok, no problem.
> 4. You also seem to need "source context" to make it
> syntax-error-free. I copied that just the way I copied the other two
> function.
>
Right. Another usefull is 'attempt, while you are at getting stuff ;)
-Volker
