Please explain...
[1/6] from: carl:cybercraft at: 17-Nov-2001 19:12
>> 2x2 < 4x4
** Script Error: Expected one of: pair! - not: pair!
** Near: 2x2 < 4x4
? (:
--
Carl Read
[2/6] from: brett:codeconscious at: 17-Nov-2001 22:48
> >> 2x2 < 4x4
> ** Script Error: Expected one of: pair! - not: pair!
> ** Near: 2x2 < 4x4
>
> ? (:
>
> --
> Carl Read
:)))
Brett.
[3/6] from: ingo:2b1 at: 17-Nov-2001 11:04
Hi Carl,
I asked myself the same thing at roughly the same time ...,
and now here's the explanation I came up with.
Once upon a time Carl Read spoketh thus:
> >> 2x2 < 4x4
> ** Script Error: Expected one of: pair! - not: pair!
> ** Near: 2x2 < 4x4
>From core25.html:
The >, >=, <, <= functions have been removed from the pair!
datatype. They lead to hard-to-find errors.
I think the error message has just not been cleanly
changed.
Kind regards
Ingo
[4/6] from: carl:cybercraft at: 18-Nov-2001 11:16
On 17-Nov-01, Ingo Hohmann wrote:
> Hi Carl,
> I asked myself the same thing at roughly the same time ...,
<<quoted lines omitted: 6>>
> > , >=, <, <= functions have been removed from the pair!
> datatype. They lead to hard-to-find errors.
Ah. I can't find that in the REBOL/Core 2.5.0 Changes doc on the RT
website, though.
So, who's finding it hard to find the errors? RT or us? (:
> I think the error message has just not been cleanly
> changed.
> Kind regards
> Ingo
--
Carl Read
[5/6] from: jasonic:panix at: 17-Nov-2001 17:57
> > From core25.html:
>
> > > , >=, <, <= functions have been removed from the pair!
> > datatype. They lead to hard-to-find errors.
>
> Ah. I can't find that in the REBOL/Core 2.5.0 Changes doc on the RT
> website, though.
hmmm. google search for "core25.html rebol" says look at
http://www.rebol.com/docs/core25.html
<quote>
5. Math Related
Added CHECKSUM/secure and RANDOM/secure, producing cryptographically secure
checksums and random numbers respectively.
Added CHECKSUM/hash and CHECKSUM/method (same as checksum/secure, but with a
selectable algorithm: 'md5 or 'sha1), and checksum/key (calculates a keyed
message digest). MD5 added as an alternative checksum algorithm.
Subtraction of a date! value months bug fixed.
The >, >=, <, <= functions have been removed from the pair! datatype. They
lead to hard-to-find errors.
</quote>
<rant>
REBOL is great: kudos RT, but RT's website behaves like an amateur !@#$@#$^
mess.
dead, out of date or misleading links.
indexing and search for docs and how-tos imo suck.
www.rebol.com needs to be cleaned, checked and all documentation aspects
re-designed *using* REBOL, so it makes a stronger advertisement for itelf,
and is easier to maintain by RT. It would benefit better from community
support. Personally I think they should base the online documentation on
Vanilla coupled to makespecpro.
</rant>
./Jason
[6/6] from: carl::cybercraft::co::nz at: 18-Nov-2001 12:43
On 18-Nov-01, Jason Cunliffe wrote:
>>> From core25.html:
>>>> , >=, <, <= functions have been removed from the pair!
<<quoted lines omitted: 25>>
> should base the online documentation on Vanilla coupled to
> makespecpro. </rant>
Well, yes. (: But the above "missing" info may be a browser problem,
as I found that it's in the HTML source of the page I was looking at
- it being the same page you gave. The "<," was tripping up my
(Amiga) browser. Checking with the three Amiga browsers I have, I
find both IBrowse and Voyager didn't display the rest of that
sentence, but AWeb did. These are hardly state-of-the-art browsers,
so we shouldn't be too hard on RT about this. Just a little hard. (:
--
Carl Read
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