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[Core] Discuss core issues

Volker
27-Jan-2005
[375]
pop: partly agreed. but i use the top of stack directly, and poping 
really means "no longer needed.
i don't use   push var  change var   pop var
but   push value   use stack/1   pop
Terry
27-Jan-2005
[376]
Is there someway to have a function stored as a string, and then 
do it, without triggering the actual function name? ie:

N: {o: func [inpu][print join inpu "ing"]}

so that i get.. 

do N "test"
>> testing
Volker
27-Jan-2005
[377]
do do N "test"
Terry
27-Jan-2005
[378]
hehe, thanks
Geomol
27-Jan-2005
[379]
So far I've push'ed and pop'ed stacks (blocks) at the bottom, because 
I presure, it's faster that from the top (because of memory allocation). 
But I haven't actually tested it, and if it's true in all cases. 
Does anyone have experience with that?
Terry
27-Jan-2005
[380x4]
boo-boo: func [inpu][if error? try inpu [print "error"]]
boo-boo [do do N "test"]
Looking at 'ALTER.. shouldn't there be a similar word that "If a 
value is not found in a series, append it; otherwise, DO NOTHING?
In other words.. i want to check the series to see if the word exists.. 
if not, add it..
Seems this should be an argument for 'ALTER

addWord: func [ser wrd][if not find ser wrd [append ser wrd]]
Tomc
27-Jan-2005
[384x3]
unioning your test word with your block of words may work
color: [ red blue green]
== [red blue green]
>> color: union color [red]
== [red blue green]
>> color: union color [yellow]
== [red blue green yellow]
>>
Robert
28-Jan-2005
[387x2]
stack: Gregg, yes these are true words about using the same name. 
But let's face reality, those data-structure stuff is quite old and 
is learned at university. Most programmers are used to them. And 
from the name of the functions I can implie to the datastructure 
used. Someone not common with Rebol might not "see" that this simulates 
a stack.
You need to know the common sense data-structures anyway. But to 
be honest, the code is quite dated. I use it in MDP to handle the 
parsing state.
Graham
28-Jan-2005
[389]
anyone know what causes an error 

** user error: system error: tcp
Geomol
28-Jan-2005
[390]
make error! "system error: tcp"

maybe?
Graham
28-Jan-2005
[391]
no .. not in this instance.
Gregg
28-Jan-2005
[392]
So far I've push'ed and pop'ed stacks (blocks) at the bottom, because 
I presure, it's faster that from the top (because of memory allocation)

 -- Yes. For block! values that is very true. For list! values it 
 isn't. For blocks it's a zillion times faster...well, for small blocks 
 it's faster and for big ones it's a *lot* faster. If you're making 
 a million changes to a 10,000 item block, it's a big difference.
Guest
30-Jan-2005
[393x2]
Q: how can I determine the pointer for a struct!  (or variable)  
for passing this pointer  to a external dll ?
or better explained, howto create a pointer. is there something like 
to-pointer ?
Gabriele
31-Jan-2005
[395]
if you pass the struct, a pointer is automatically passed. anyway, 
Ladislav has functions to get pointers to memory. I don't have the 
link at hand though...
eFishAnt
31-Jan-2005
[396x3]
you need a pointer to Ladislav's URL struct!    ;-)
took a while to find this ... http://www.fm.vslib.cz/~ladislav/rebol/
not sure that Gab's reference is there, but tons of goodies there...wow!
Gabriele
31-Jan-2005
[399]
http://www.compkarori.com/vanilla/display/peek_and_poke.r
Graham
31-Jan-2005
[400]
anyone recall offhand what the function is that decodes url encoded 
text back to normal?
Tomc
31-Jan-2005
[401]
decode-url
Graham
31-Jan-2005
[402x3]
that takes a url
I'm just looking for the function that decodes the text and returns 
text, and not an object
it's likely to be called by decode-url
Tomc
31-Jan-2005
[405]
there is a parse-url  but it is burried in an objecr and not public/global
Graham
31-Jan-2005
[406]
yeah, it's in there somewhere
Tomc
31-Jan-2005
[407]
see ?? decode-url
Chris
31-Jan-2005
[408]
dehex?  (preceded by replace/all text "+" " ")
Graham
31-Jan-2005
[409]
dehex looks good :)
Geomol
31-Jan-2005
[410]
Remember & < and > if you have any of those in the text. 
Shall be replaced by &, < and >.
Tomc
31-Jan-2005
[411x2]
graham there is a  web-to-plain.r  at http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~tomc/
that may work for you
if you have more char enties than just hex encoding
eFishAnt
31-Jan-2005
[413]
there were some note on it in Core release notes IIRC, de-hex and 
decode-url
Graham
31-Jan-2005
[414x2]
the microwebserver at http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=webserver.r
doesn't decode spaces etc so comes a cropper if the file on disk 
has a space in it.
The authors, not mentioned, were "Tyler Booth" "Jeff Kreis" "Bohdan 
Lechnowsky"
eFishAnt
31-Jan-2005
[416]
http://www.rebol.com/docs/changes.htmlnot so much on decode-url, 
but decode-cgi yes.
Guest
8-Feb-2005
[417]
how to: create a array of objects ? (like arrays of udt's)
Sunanda
8-Feb-2005
[418]
blk: copy []
loop 10 [append blk make object!  [a: 1]]
Guest
8-Feb-2005
[419x2]
wow, fast reply. thx sunanda. last question: what syntax I need to 
access e.g.  object array no. 5 or 8  to write values like  blk/a: 
recordset ?
I have a object with - name, street, and country and a database with 
50 records. I would like to store the records into a dynamic object 
array for later reading...
Anton
8-Feb-2005
[421x3]
equivalent to above, but a bit faster in execution (maybe you have 
a large block):
blk: make block! 10

loop 10 [insert tail blk make object! [name: copy "<name>"]] ; COPY 
so all objects don't share the same string
objects: copy []
person: context [name: copy "<name>" address: copy "<address>"]

get-record-item: func [n field][copy ""] ; <--- you have to make 
this function look into the database

repeat n 50 [append objects make person [name: get-record-item n 
'name address: get-record-item n 'address]]
Guest
8-Feb-2005
[424]
thank you anton. this is the code I was looking for :-))