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 [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 dead, out of date or misleading links.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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