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New article in rebol.org and New challenge

 [1/10] from: btiffin:rogers at: 29-Apr-2007 18:17


Gentlereaders, I've just posted an article to rebol.org. It has to do with the Levels of REBOL awareness. http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/art-display-article.r?article=lf019t Sunanda came up with an idea for a group article. I think it's a beautiful idea. I'd like to challenge to group to come up with some short interesting examples of scripts that would be in line with the described levels. First challenge is getting the spelling bugs out. And does anyone know of a way of overriding the MakeDoc 2 subsection numbering? I'd like Level 0 to be 1.0 in the output doc. Of course, the credits will change with each entry. If any. Thanks for listening, Brian

 [2/10] from: anton:wilddsl:au at: 30-Apr-2007 14:49


Hi Brian, two errors of grammar: it's quirks -> its quirks it's fair share -> its fair share I presume the MakeDoc 2 which is found here: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=makedoc2.r I tried to hack it but it resisted me for over an hour, so I've given up on that for now. The problem is that the initial sections tuple is 0.0.0.0, starting at zero, and when the parser identifies the beginning of each section it bumps the section by one. It would be easy if we could set the initial sections tuple to 0.-1.-1.-1, but we can't. Regards, Anton.

 [3/10] from: GedB::Rushcoding::co::uk at: 30-Apr-2007 10:48


I would say that levels 3 and 4 may be the wrong way round. Writing REBOL actually comes before reading REBOL. I was able to get REBOL to do what I wanted long before I was able to work out the code of others. Ged. On 4/30/07, Anton Rolls <anton-wilddsl.net.au> wrote:

 [4/10] from: carl:cybercraft at: 1-May-2007 0:54


On Monday, 30-April-2007 at 10:48:58 Ged Byrne wrote,
>I would say that levels 3 and 4 may be the wrong way round. > >Writing REBOL actually comes before reading REBOL. > >I was able to get REBOL to do what I wanted long before I was able to >work out the code of others.
That was my experience too, and I wonder if tutorials should always take it into account. The 'learn by reading other people's code' may not actually be helpful in Rebol's case. Or it might be just me - and you. ;-) -- Carl Read.

 [5/10] from: hallvard:ystad:babelserver at: 30-Apr-2007 15:57


Dixit Carl Read (14.54 30.04.2007):
>That was my experience too, and I wonder if tutorials should always take it into account. The 'learn by reading other people's code' may not actually be helpful in Rebol's case. Or it might be just me - and you. ;-)
I think it is more common than that. Me too, I learned rebol that way. But the same goes for my perl, java, euphoria, C and ocaml experiences... HY

 [6/10] from: btiffin:rogers at: 30-Apr-2007 10:29


Thanks Anton. Fixed the grammar. Thanks for looking into the numbering. Sunanda suggested looking into make-doc-pro. I'll give the docs a read and see if it allows numbering overrides. Cheers, Brian On Monday 30 April 2007 00:49, Anton Rolls wrote:

 [7/10] from: btiffin::rogers::com at: 30-Apr-2007 10:36


Thanks gentlemen, I'll take this into account when the article gets its first update. Seems strangely like...the REBOL way. Cheers, Brian On Monday 30 April 2007 08:54, Carl Read wrote:

 [8/10] from: btiffin:rogers at: 4-May-2007 23:53


---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [REBOL] New article in rebol.org and New challenge Date: Friday 04 May 2007 12:51 From: "Ed O'Connor" <edoconnor-gmail.com> To: "Brian Tiffin" <btiffin-rogers.com> Another min-project idea-- see: http://todotxt.com/whytxt.php Seems like the kind of simple thing REBOL was specifically designed for. Ed On 4/29/07, Ed O'Connor <edoconnor-gmail.com> wrote:

 [9/10] from: btiffin:rogers at: 5-May-2007 0:00


Sorry, I forwarded the wrong message last time. This is to let everyone know, that if they post me private mail, I won't forward it off without permission. :) ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [REBOL] New article in rebol.org and New challenge Date: Friday 04 May 2007 20:46 From: "Ed O'Connor" <edoconnor-gmail.com> To: "Brian Tiffin" <btiffin-rogers.com> Of course, I don't mind at all. It really does seem like something that would be a lot of fun for anyone to play with. I can imagine a slick dialect for this, although I notice that REBOL's datatypes probably wouldn't allow an implementation for the syntax that they seem to have standardized on. Ed On 5/4/07, Brian Tiffin <btiffin-rogers.com> wrote:

 [10/10] from: btiffin:rogers at: 6-May-2007 15:31


Gentle readers, Sunanda has just releases a new feature to rebol.org. Articles can now be tagged [wiki:public]. I can only assume you know what that means. :) The REBOL Levels article has been tagged, so it's now a 'miki'. Go to town. I've added example code for level 4 and 5, but now the samples should get more meaty or more technical. If you feel like it, go ahead and try this new collaboration feature. Cheers, Brian On Monday 30 April 2007 10:36, Brian Tiffin wrote: