World: r3wp

hm.. I think you have to a line to your .emacs file .. just a sec

Steeve: editing without colorization is really painful for me

hm.. it seems I just copied that file into .emacs and added 2 lines 
(I just started using emacs)

for me too

bah... it's because you begin, after some time, you'll prefer without 
it :)

you can find my file here http://www.refaktor.si/storage/

but then you have to loom much more to see what is what, don't you?

loom = look

hum, i don't feel pain, my brain do colorization by himself :)

my real blog is here : http://thewikiblog.appspot.com/

I just visited, it looks interesting!

Janko: thanks,

Geomol: what are your interests ?

what does pain, is an excessive code length but it's the point where 
Rebol is the best: short length of code

Steeve: Rebol is auto folding !

kib, science, programming, playing piano, graphics, photo, astronomy 
... many things. My hp at university: http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/

I like colourization, but I make the colours vary only slightly from 
black, so there are no very bright colours shouting at me.

Geomol: you're working on astronomy : nice !

Anton: I like this Emacs theme : http://tinyurl.com/chybvc

yes nice, same comment

Studying astronomy. Bachelor this summer.

kib2: I should point out that  '  is not an operator. There are a 
few word datatypes which are closely related, but are treated slightly 
differently.
	word!     eg.    hello
	lit-word!  eg.   'hello
	get-word! eg.  :hello
	set-word! eg.  hello:

I saw there was a really nice postscript (and pdf) lib in Rebol. 
What about using it for making scientific diagrams ? (an old project 
of mine, in Python, was geoPyx here: http://kib2.free.fr/geoPyX/geoPyXfr.html)

Anton: so what is ' exactly ? I mean a litteral, but that's not a 
Rebol function ?

No, not a function.

When the interpreter evaluates some items in a block, and it comes 
across word!, it automatically tries to reduce it to its associated 
value.

In the classes in astronomy, we're taught a language called IDL to 
reduce scientific data and make images and diagrams. I often just 
use REBOL directly to make the diagrams. I've wanted many times to 
make a library of routines or a plotting application in REBOL, but 
haven't had the time yet. Maybe some day.

When it comes across a lit-word!, however, it reduces it to the word! 
of the same spelling.

This is how I think of it:

	lit-word!  -->  word!  -->  value

Anton: ok, that's clearer now.

Geomol: is creating a plotting dialect that hard ?

try this Kib:
>> a: 2
>> reduce [a]
>> reduce ['a]

and
>> reduce reduce ['a]

I wouldn't mind being able to set 3-4 months aside to create a complete 
graphing dialect.

Steeve: ok i've tried. But why the reduce output is a block ?

(kib2: yes, creating a plotting dialect is hard. It must be - I tried 
creating a general plotting function. There are many types of chart/graph 
to support.)

kib, it's probably not hard, maybe take a bit of work to make it 
really slim and clever. I just have a ton of projects in the air 
all the time, so I didn't come to it yet.

Geomol: not as much as Carl !

Kib because the input of reduce is a block

Try this:
	reduce ['print join "bon" "jour"]

That is simply how reduce works. If you want a single value output, 
then use DO, which returns the last evalated value in the block.
	do ['a]

Anton: funny

in fact it's logical : everything is a block.

REDUCE is one of several block manipulation functions. It evaluates 
anything that can be evaluated inside a block.

even, you can do 
>> reduce 'a

ahahah

REDUCE is not restricted to blocks.

Yes, if you type something in the console, eg:

	print 1 + 2


you can imagine that it takes the string "print 1 + 2", LOADS it 
into a block, [print 1 + 2], then DOes it.

Steeve: yes, i've tried, but it's limited to the word behind reduce 
then ?

not now, but in the past, it was

DO is like REDUCE, in that it evaluates every item in the block, 
except DO does not create and store results in a new block - it just 
returns the last value.