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BrianH
24-Oct-2005
[2513]
Either way congratulations are in order :)
Ladislav
24-Oct-2005
[2514]
:-))
Graham
24-Oct-2005
[2515x2]
to-date/newborn
for pediatric applications
Ladislav
24-Oct-2005
[2517x2]
Brian: did you notice my suggestion to write a RAMBO request for 
IF and USE in PARSE dialect?
for pediatric applications you may need 24/Jul/06 to be next year, 
may you not?
BrianH
24-Oct-2005
[2519]
Ladislav, I did notice. I'll do it later, after I get some sleep 
- I want to think about the phrasing.
Graham
24-Oct-2005
[2520]
yeah .. EDD are in the future.
Ladislav
24-Oct-2005
[2521]
glad I am not supposed to solve this :-P
Sunanda
24-Oct-2005
[2522]
Dates have natural ranges depending on their domain.

An expected due date of an unborn baby is (in theory) no more than 
9 months away.

The expected due date assigned to my mother before I was born is, 
now, a long time ago.


I don't'see how you can get around applying all due diligence to 
*any* input field. That may include asking for 4-digit dates on some 
occassions or disambiguating 24/oct/05 to ensure you know which part 
is the year.


Validation is one of the hardest parts of any real-world application, 
and one of the parts that most languages -- REBOL included -- offer 
only token support for.
Ideally, we'd have a range of to-xxx? words, like:
to-date? "29-feb-03"
== [false  "no such date"]
to-date?/strict "29-feb-04"    
== [false "ambiguous year/day]
to-date?/window "29-feb-04" [1975 2074]
== [true 29-feb-2004]
Benjamin
24-Oct-2005
[2523]
how can a call rebol from a PHP page ?
Sunanda
24-Oct-2005
[2524]
Does this help?
http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/read.php/4_12_0
Graham
24-Oct-2005
[2525]
there's a php implementation in rebol on the rebol france page
Benjamin
24-Oct-2005
[2526x4]
thanks Sunanda, exec() is a bit slow
im using exec("rebol.exe -sc test.r", $output, $return); it worked 
well im going to check the php implementation
im adding a module to phpAdsNew and i need to make it in rebol because 
my php skills are soooo bad
i cant find the implementation any where, in rebol france site, can 
you point me to the link ?
Graham
24-Oct-2005
[2530x2]
http://www.xgarreau.org/zazouminiwebserver/
close .. the docs are in French.
Pekr
24-Oct-2005
[2532x2]
as for dates, I once coded an algorithm to tell me the week. I sometimes 
miss date/week, date/day-of-year (number of days since the beginning 
of the year)
Ladislav - you mentioned IF in regards to parse. I thought it is 
a part of your REP you was supposed to post to RT? If not, and if 
it is not in Rambo yet, I may submit it then, cutting your request 
from here :-)
Sunanda
24-Oct-2005
[2534]
Dates: many useful conversion functions here:
http://www.codeur.org/forum/edit_msg.php?ID=10636&theme=17
Ladislav
24-Oct-2005
[2535]
Pekr: don't, I wanted Bryan to do it on purpose
Pekr
24-Oct-2005
[2536]
why? :-) you expect him, while submitting it, to come to some ideas? 
:-)
Ladislav
24-Oct-2005
[2537x2]
yes
eh, sorry, I wanted to say Brian, of course
Pekr
24-Oct-2005
[2539]
Ladislav: you should not use Rambo for puzzles :-))
Graham
24-Oct-2005
[2540]
what happens to the series if you insert elements  into the list 
while you're in a forskip loop?

what position are you at  now?
Ladislav
24-Oct-2005
[2541]
Graham: FORSKIP is a mezzanine, so it is easy to check
Pekr
24-Oct-2005
[2542]
that is the similar question of what happens to parse input stream 
:-) I did some inline changes, it seemed to work, but I probably 
confused indexing somehow not returning to proper position, after 
I did some replacing in it :-)
Chris
24-Oct-2005
[2543]
Graham, re. dates, though likely redundant, you could add an 'age' 
field...
BrianH
24-Oct-2005
[2544]
Ladislav, Petr: It is all right to use ME for puzzles though, time 
permitting :)
Ladislav
24-Oct-2005
[2545]
I just wanted to give you the opportunity to write it, because I 
knew you were thinking about it,...
james_nak
25-Oct-2005
[2546]
Is there a way to read the dates when a file was created? I'd like 
to add a "newest" file choice to one of my apps. Thanks.
Geomol
25-Oct-2005
[2547]
James:
probe info? %rebol.exe
Volker
25-Oct-2005
[2548]
creation, not modified? depends on os. look for get-modes.
james_nak
25-Oct-2005
[2549]
Thank you. How you all know this stuff amazes me! Again thanks.
Volker
25-Oct-2005
[2550]
We are all role-players, and after some years of trying alll doors.. 
;)
james_nak
25-Oct-2005
[2551]
Yeah, I see what you mean. It takes that kind of person. I just keep 
on staying in the same room until I give up and ask for the "cheat 
code."
Brock
25-Oct-2005
[2552]
The difference between 'real programmers' , language junkies and 
us newbies.  I fall into your category as well James.
Anton
25-Oct-2005
[2553]
On Windows:
>> get-modes %rebol.exe 'file-modes

== [creation-date access-date modification-date owner-write archived 
hidden system]
>> get-modes %rebol.exe 'creation-date
== 19-Aug-2003/11:21:03+10:00
Brock
25-Oct-2005
[2554]
newbies/hobbyists
Volker
25-Oct-2005
[2555]
I ask for cheatcodes immediate. There are enough doors left anyway.. 
;)
Alek_K
27-Oct-2005
[2556]
Style/functionality question: I'm writing a function to deal with 
adding to block a block with [Title Content [(Childs if exists)]].

Childs are not required - is it better to add [Title Content] (if 
no childs) or to provide empty block - [Title Content []]?
BrianH
27-Oct-2005
[2557x3]
Support both by setting a default value of an empty block in your 
code, perhaps like this:
childs: any [pick data 3 []]
Pick returns none if out of range, so any will move on to the next 
expression, your default value.
If you need to change the childs block, remember to use  make block! 
0  or  copy []  instead of  [] .
Alek_K
27-Oct-2005
[2560x3]
Yes, i know that.
My question is more "philosophical" - what is better by experience.
As for now, I think that providing empty block will be more "compact"