World: r3wp

glad I am not supposed to solve this :-P

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]

how can a call rebol from a PHP page ?

Does this help?
http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/read.php/4_12_0

there's a php implementation in rebol on the rebol france page

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 ?

http://www.xgarreau.org/zazouminiwebserver/

close .. the docs are in French.

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 :-)

Dates: many useful conversion functions here:
http://www.codeur.org/forum/edit_msg.php?ID=10636&theme=17

Pekr: don't, I wanted Bryan to do it on purpose

why? :-) you expect him, while submitting it, to come to some ideas? 
:-)

yes

eh, sorry, I wanted to say Brian, of course

Ladislav: you should not use Rambo for puzzles :-))

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?

Graham: FORSKIP is a mezzanine, so it is easy to check

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 :-)

Graham, re. dates, though likely redundant, you could add an 'age' 
field...

Ladislav, Petr: It is all right to use ME for puzzles though, time 
permitting :)

I just wanted to give you the opportunity to write it, because I 
knew you were thinking about it,...

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.

James:
probe info? %rebol.exe

creation, not modified? depends on os. look for get-modes.

Thank you. How you all know this stuff amazes me! Again thanks.

We are all role-players, and after some years of trying alll doors.. 
;)

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."

The difference between 'real programmers' , language junkies and 
us newbies.  I fall into your category as well James.

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

newbies/hobbyists

I ask for cheatcodes immediate. There are enough doors left anyway.. 
;)

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 []]?

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  [] .

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"

It's better to be forgiving in your dialects - it leads to fewer 
syntax errors.

be forgiving
 - what do you mean?

brb

From a philisophical standpoint, it is best to be somewhat forgiving 
in your evaluation of the syntax of data that is input to your function, 
but exact in the syntax of the data that is ouput from your function. 
That will make sure that the effect of errors or flexibility in the 
data is limited to the code that is doing the initial evaluation. 
This means that if you can figure out from context what a default 
value is, do so, and then your function will be more usable, particularly 
when the data may be written by hand.

Thanks Brian :)

It's sort of like the stated philosophy of Unix command line utilities.

this should be in core

 cls: does [ print "^(1B)[J" ]

I am creating some variables dynamically

so, they are .. "formvar1" .. "formvarn"

how do I unset them?