World: r3wp

ANY - Not sure what you mean Volker.

but that's usually harder than the dialect itself, and there are 
no ways to ensure that this door, won't corrupt your dialect itself..

group created, lets move binary stuff to there

i need two nested blocks. nearly everytime i use 'parse.

i.e. why would a refinement be better than using PARSEs ANY keyword?

Ahhhh.

Would it always return TRUE if /any is used then?

I will try to re-introduce the previous block parsing engine I had 
built for glass into the newer code.

And that are often 3-liner, which are then 5-liner
parse/any files[
  file!(..) | url! (..)
]

that dialect (not parse based) could easily implement OOP style polymorphism 
within the dialect!

No, only 'true if the whole rule matches.

I think that might be confusing, because ANY in a parse rule implies 
optionality.

although an error would be nice too, if it does not
  parse/error blk [..]

would throw an error on fail. maybe with hints about the position.

In my use 'any means loop

How about just using a PARSE-ANY wrapper mezz of your own?

Ugly. parse/any looks nicer. And its a bit slower? But does the job.

and its an extra definition in every short script (i never use %user.r 
for libs..)

Well, post it as a wish then. I haven't needed it, and I'm concerned 
that the dual meaning of ANY in the context of PARSE might be confusing, 
but Carl has the final say.

must not be 'any, its just what is now used inside the dialect. maybe 
parse/many ?

Most scripting languages (like Ruby) and even some programming languages 
(like Java) support the string-concatenation operator "+".

>> "a" + "b" 
== "ab"


I know that we can use the JOIN function, but a + operator for string 
would be nice too. Why doesn't REBOL do so?

>> "a" + 2 + "b"
** Script Error: Cannot use add on string! value
** Near: "a" + 2 + "b"

>> rejoin ["a" 2 "b"]
== "a2b"

What could be more elegant ?

:) (and reads well to).

Yes, I find all those interspersed concatenation operators tiresome 
and ugly.

'rejoin' sounds like it was already joined once

uhuh.

If I knew nothing if programming languages, I would think "a" + "b" 
= "c"   ;-)

when I first met programming language - basic on 8 bit home computer, 
I could not get how A = A + 1 can be valid :-)

to try to patch ubuntu REBOL/Core today for serial ports, I did:
reb-orig: read/binary %rebol
replace/case reb-orig "ttyC0" "ttyc0"
write/binary %rebol-patched reb-orig


...but when I try to run the patched binary it gives some crazy line 
errors.   I differenced the two executibles in REBOL and got some 
crazy differences more than just what I thought I was changing.

(2 of my computers died, so I don't have the hex-edit.r of Ryans...so 
was seeing if I could just patch the binary with REBOL itself.   
Perhaps the replace by strings did some inherent conversion of the 
REBOL executible...not sure.

you might want to count how many there are first?  if only a few, 
maybe replacing one at a time will end up working?

I think there is a way to specify your serial ports. I don't remember 
how. I but I have done it the past. I should search my files.

If anyone has hex-edit.r and could post to library...or link...it 
would be appreciated.  I didn't plan to have my computers down.  
It is IOS/Developer/Users/Ryan-Cole/Utilities ... IIRC

Have you tried this?

append System/ports/serial 'ttyc0

port: open serial://port3/9600/8/none/1

This way you don't need to modify the binary et all.

Hi Jerry, "I know that we can use the JOIN function, but a + operator 
for string would be nice too. Why doesn't REBOL do so?"


Do you think it would be nice because it's more readable, or because 
it's familiar to people coming from languages that have it?


I came to REBOL with a long BASIC history, and it didn't take me 
long before I didn't miss + for concatenation at all. + is really 
a math op; I like REBOL's consistency, and I like the way REBOL concat 
code reads.

Jaime...thanks, but I get the same error ... Access Error:  cannot 
open ttyc0

ttyc0 is actually there, and ttyC0 is not (in the /dev directory) 
and I have tried root  and normal passwords.

but I am running AltME on ubuntu now.

did you try with ttyc1 etc as well? ttys0?

Why won't you just copy ttyc0 to ttyC0 so you will have both versions?

Never mind. That doesn't seem to work.

Try this:

system/ports/serial: [ttyS1]

port: open serial://port1/9600

Steve, Regarding "access error" are you sure you have enough user 
rights?

I tried logged on as root and as normal user, both give the same 
error.

Edgar...that WORKED!...yahoo!

still need to test with the devices...(so how did you ever figure 
that out?