World: r3wp

I beleive Gregg is just trying to have some manners, not set rules. 
 It is a given that when someone welcomes you, you should not overstay 
your welcome or you won't be welcome any more.  So rather than trying 
to set any rules or restrict anyone's conversations, I believe Gregg 
was just say, "Let's not overstay our welcome."

I have yet to see anyone here "overstaying their welcome".  And if 
no one is doing that, then why make the point?  Could it be a personal 
issue perhaps?  An "I'd rather not try to filter out stuff im not 
interested in, so stifle it." ?

It could be, but I doubt it.

You're speaking on behalf of those wearing hats again Ammon... I'm 
probably the most argumentative person here, but you would clearly 
be second.. So if I'm "not welcomed", then you could be pretty sure 
that you'd be next.

My bad, i thought I had.. one of the problems with Altme.


Did you just blame AltME because you were in the wrong group?  LOL

Q: I have yet to see anyone here "overstaying their welcome". 

A: Let us focus on signal to noise, which seems to be the focus of 
Gregg's post.


Q:  And if no one is doing that, then why make the point?  Could 
it be a personal issue perhaps?  An "I'd rather not try to filter 
out stuff im not interested in, so stifle it." ?


A: Do you feel you have an axe to grind?  Is there something your 
reading into the cordial request to all to "please remember to stay 
on topic in groups." ?


I must have missed something, how did you jump from the sentence 
above, and the sentence "If you don't want to be bothered with a 
particular group, feel free to remove yourself from it. "  which 
seams educational (people do forget they can change the channel in 
censorship terms to "So if I'm "not welcomed""?


Reading your posts here leads me to believe you have taken what was 
written as if it was written to and for you, yet it seems to be written 
as general web etiquette but as it applies to Rebol3.

Just a week or so ago I seem to remember starting a group called 
"Hitler" (which someone renamed Quagmire…I think Hitler is still 
a better name).


The whole reasons being that anyone with a strong enjoyment of debate, 
that has am opinion will eventually pull a thread off topic.  It 
is natural.


I simply wanted to offer a method in our community here to push people 
to take it "out of the room" so to speak.


In our office we have a large plastic pig we call the tangent pig. 
 If during a meeting anyone deems the conversation to have strayed 
off topic, we had them the plastic pig, since in order to be on a 
tangent, you must have the pig in your hand.  It works the other 
way also, if you want to pull a tangent, jump for the pig.  It works. 
 Tangents are quick.

aye carumba

1. ) It IS much easier to accidentally post into the wrong group 
with Altme, than say, a BB.  That's beyond debate.

2.) As I mentioned, it's not the "stay on topic" point.. it's the 
'all topics should be Rebol related' point.. of which Graham above 
understood with the response... "well, if all the topics should be 
rebol related, we're in trouble."  My comment, as both you AND Ammon 
have 'missed', has nothing to do with either posting in the wrong 
group, OR staying on topic within a particular subject.

You know Terry, I find your writings rather sanctimonious.


I didn't "miss" anything, I simply agree with Gregg.  Groups should 
really be Rebol related.  This world is provided by and for Rebol. 
 Or Cleary marked so you know they are not, and offered in a way 
to not be part of them, as in Private.

It already is.  You may notice on the Health group a number of Rebols 
have opted out.

I see opportunities to write code being wasted here.

just wondering why ann-reply is also a private group

but everyone is in it

How's that?

ok, who's the wise guy who changed it ?

?

Ahh, the privacy thing.. I'm guessing that someone exited the group, 
then returned.. but forgot to make it public again.. till now.

we lack a history of changes

I'm the one who made it public again, not sure who made it private...

congrats rebol-france

Thank you graham we are preparing the next steps like improvement 
the conversion to MD2 in order to release it on RT doc server as 
soon it is online ;)

U used mdp ?

non dokuwiki format to enhance work abality and reability we decided 
to open a dokuwiki widly open to anyone

but we have yet Vincent Ecuyer that  make an MD2 convertion script 
that retrieves the pages from de dokuwiki on line and write on the 
local hard drive the file containing the infos converted to MD2 format

just looking at the docuwiki docs now.

REBOL is a true killing app for all those kind of little conversion 
script little but very powerfull

Congratulations! I was impressed by the website progress display, 
whose visual feedback surely helped you to reach your goals.

Nice work, guys!

It's a trail-blazing project that I hope inspires others to follow.

Sunanda I hope it too ;)

this kind of project allows every one even ones who are weak in programming 
to participate and learn ;)

There's a problem with my RebXML format, now that I wanna use a slash 
to make an empty element. The problem arise, when having string content 
after the slash, because it'll then be seen as an attribute. I'm 
working on it...

I don't think, the problem can be solved, so I have to go back to 
using an empty string to define an empty element. The problem is, 
that:
{<doc><element att="value" />some text</doc>}
is a valid XML string. The RebXML version is:
[doc [element att "value" / "some text"]]
and that will be converted back to:
{<doc><element att="value" /="some text">}

because the slash is seen as a word by the parse command, and then 
it's recognized as an attribute, because attributes are defined as 
a word! and a string!.


I'll think about it a little longer and give you guys the option 
to point me to a solution. Else I'll just change it back.

I understand you want to use "/" as XML does. But may be considering 
another character is easier :

>> type? #
== issue!
>> parse [#][#]
== true
>> parse [#][set t issue!]
== true

Yes, that's a good suggestion. Will it be too weird to define an 
empty element with a #? hmm

[doc [element att "value" # "some text"]]
How does that look?

Ok, I desided to go with the # method. Thanks DideC! :-)

no problem ;-)

Geomol, can't you just make an exception for words beginning with 
a slash ?

I mean, "/" = form word  ?

I haven't found a way to do that within a parse rule. It's like parsing 
words and stop with a certain word.


parse [word1 word2 word3 X word4 word5] [any ['X (stop parsing!!!) 
| word!]]

How do I stop?

break

parse [word1 word2 word3 X word4 word5 [any ['X break | word!]]

And then start the parse again from that point. Hmmm, a possbility! 
:-)

parse [w1 w2 w3 X w4 w5] [any ['X (print 'stop) break | word!] to 
end]  ;maybe clearer

That's it! Thanks!

And I consider myself a programmer. ;-)

if you are going to restart parse at that point maybe a skip  or 
'X here: (here: next :here) :here

break only break out of that inner rule, not the parse, so it's no 
problem. It's actually the way, I wanted it.