World: r3wp

for dictionary sorting it is sufficent that first "1000"  is less 
than first "99"

thanks...got all that working (did a parse after all, mold/only the 
block of words to strings before parsing.

hello every body On rebolfrance Forum we have a guy who wants to 
load a library DLL he have done most part of the work but he can't 
find how to convert in his rebol cloned struct! the int intpointer[4] 
from C language to an equivalent type of rebol. Can you enlight us 
please (you can respond directly to shadwolf)

is http://www.compkarori.com/vanilla/display/peek_and_poke.rof any 
use for the purpose?

If you have ever tried APPENDing a Block to a Block as a Block (ie. 
append ["a"] to [] and have it be [["a"]])  Then you prolly know 
that you have to jump through a couple of hoops to do it.  The same 
goes to append a string to a string.  Now there are a lot of times 
that I need to append one series to another as a "sub-series" it 
seems to me that this should be much simpler to do, maybe a refinement 
to APPEND.  Any thoughts?

append/only

["a" []] = append/only ["a"] []  ;like this?

You're kidding me?

that's funny.  I've always used compose/deep [[()]]

also, repend/only ...

REBOL lets you get along any old way.

Well, that will make my scripts shorter. ;-)

Look at desk-calc.r for some shrinking tricks.

or mini-calc.r

I was thinking of making up and compiling some function libraries 
based on other languages. People coming from these languages can 
adapt quickly, and some have cool functions.

I may use these to help sell programming firms on REBOL.

Submissions and your own compiliations are welcome of course.

Latest Core Alpha on Debian Woody hangs at this stage:

Component: "REBOL Mezzanine Extensions" 1.2.0 (1-Aug-2004/22:34:12)

Component: "REBOL Internet Protocols" 1.71.0 (4-Nov-2004/21:08:24)
Finger protocol loaded
Whois protocol loaded
Daytime protocol loaded
SMTP protocol loaded
POP protocol loaded
IMAP protocol loaded
HTTP protocol loaded
FTP protocol loaded
NNTP protocol loaded
Component: "Command Shell Access" 1.9.0 (3-Jan-2005/21:08:57)
Component: "System Port" 1.4.0 (1-Aug-2004/18:58:28)

..

Tried on two slightly differently configured machines - same result

Have you reported via Feedback or Rambo?

not yet - in the middle of an alpha test - no time for thinking even 
:(

i'd want to spend a little more tie testing - im trying it on fedora 
core 2 in another few hours as our linux servers go live

Can you look in rambo-group? noted such problems with older knoppix 
(=debian) there. you see cursor, then nothing happens?

I do not understand this:
>> x: to-set-word 'y
== y:
>> x 'z
== z
>> probe y
** Script Error: y has no value
** Near: probe y

can somebody explain or point me at some docs?

your trouble is, that the evaluation of X doesn't have the same effect 
as if you replace X by its value. The evaluation of X only yields 
a set-word instead of setting anything. If you really want to set 
a word 'y, then there are two ways:

set x 'z

do compose [(x) 'z]

OK thanks,  I understand.  'set is simple.  I did not try  'do compose' 
until  now.  II tried 'do' and 'do reduce' without succes.

How about this one:

>> dir? http:/www.google.com/
** Access Error: Cannot connect to mail.pacific.net
** Where: open-proto
** Near: dir? http:/www.google.com/

Hm...  I think you got something stuck in your event system somewhere...

>> dir? http://www.google.com
connecting to: www.google.com
== false

Your right...

>> system/version
== 1.2.57.3.1

(you were right about the editor too, 1 night was too little)

http:// not http:/

>> dir? http://www.google.com/
== false

The devils are in the details!

Ryan: What are you trying to achieve?  (Or is it humor that has eluded 
me?)

Just curious if it looked up the site for a directory. part of my 
rebol editor I am working on.

Gabriele mean that in your post at 5:30 am you miss a slash in the 
url (http:/ instead of http://)

Yep, that was it.

does sort use bubble sort?

I mean - for sort/compare

I will have following block structure:

blk: [[name "pekr" other [cz "aaa" en "bbbb"]] [name "adiana" other 
[en "ddd" cz "aab"]]]

using sort/compare blk func [a b] [a/other/cz < b/other/cz], it will 
survive different location of 'cz field, as it cleverly uses path 
navigation. That is nice. I just wonder about different case ... 
let's say I have object templates, which change once per period of 
xy months ... I also have IOS, so lots of record synced around. My 
plan was, that each object would carry its version info. I wonder 
what to do in case, where new object template version will extend 
object structure, e.g. adding phone-num field ...

If I would try to run sort, it would crash ... I wonder if I should 
check each object at its usage, and if instance is of older structure, 
update it first - adding new fields, not removing older ones (questionable, 
maybe they should be removed, or sort problem would not be gone anyway)

I don't think it uses bubble sort. That is a very slow algorithm. 
It's probably quick sort or shell sort.

I really liked its path understanding - so I don't need to keep fields 
at the same position. I like blocks better than objects :-)

You have to be careful using /compare. I don' t think it's good to 
use just a logic! value for the swap condition. I think you need 
to specity -1, 0, 1 as values... I forget, you must look it up.