World: r3wp

here is my output from above...
>> colours: [red blue black green violet]
== [red blue black green violet]
>> foreach colour colours [print colour]
red
blue
black
green
violet

start a new rebol console... maybe you stomped on a keyword in your 
tests.  your output is not expected.

remember that rebol has little if any statements, so this means you 
can overwrite just about every control structure in the language. 

maybe you inadvertently overwrote the print function.

(or maybe that was part of an earlier exercise  ;-)

oh, ok!

Aha!
You were right.

New rebol session and all is good.

So that's a real catch to look out for!

Pity I've lost all my other set-up now. ... suppose I should start 
writing it in an actual script!

one thing about REBOL is that many things look deceptively simple 
on the surface, but there are many little details which make it a 
pretty deep language.

yeah, I rarely test stuff which doesn't fit on a single line directly 
in the console.

one thing you can do is use the clipboard directly. if you type :

do read clipboard://


it will execute whatever REBOL source code you have in your clipboard 
 :-)

OK, now I can start working on my real little problem I was trying 
to do in rebol.

In regards to that, is there a way to format days without resorting 
to 'pick'ing from blocks of day names etc?

Oh neat! (read from clipboard)

using the up arrow, its a quick way to test multiline stuff without 
filling up the history, allowing you to go up just once, and press 
enter.

there might be some more powerfull date formatting code on rebol.org

otherwise, the picking is the way to go.

hmm, doesn't understand clipboard.  Is it a windows only thing?

not that I know of.  what error did it give you?

>> do read clipboard://
** Access Error: Invalid port spec: clipboard://
** Near: do read clipboard://

on what OS are you?

OSX

Rebol 2.7.6...

(Update fails as well, I know there is a newer v2)

might be that its not working on OSX, there are quite a few OSX REBOLers 
here, one will surely pop up and confirm/infirm

latest version is here... http://www.rebol.com/download-view.html

(of REBOL/view that is)

ok, thx Maxim for all your help!

I'm outta here for now.

happy to help,  the people here like helping out new REBOLers, don't 
hesitate to ask however simple you might think the question.

Welcome Jonathan!


The console is your friend, but you're not the first to overwrite 
a system word and have to start a new session. REBOL has a few gotchas. 
With great power and all that. 

>> d: now/weekday
== 3
>> pick system/locale/days d
== "Wednesday"
>> system/locale/days/:d
== "Wednesday"

>> day-name: func [date [date!]] [pick system/locale/days date/weekday]
>> day-name now
== "Wednesday"

hello

umm so im kinda new to rebol, actually it was today when i decided 
to learn this language, and im thinking of making my diplome work 
in it . so i would ask some question if its alowed

ah, welcome! ask away :-)

can i write programs in rebol that is abel to connect to my phone 
via cabel or bluetooth so i can read my sms and stuff like that?

so do they have functions that are abel to connect to phones or stuff 
like that?

That depends if you have access to libraries that already do this. 
REBOL can't do this directly, but it may be possible through a DLL.

(you may want to start with some simpler stuff first)

ye sure thats what i was thinking of, but i donno if its worth to 
learn , if i cant use it for that phone thing

i thought it has some methods

i wanted to do it in java first, but then some one told me about 
this language

it's probably easier for you to do it in java, if you already know 
it.

nop, i dont have much experience in java either, but i was thinking 
hmm phones hey then java why not

REBOL does not currently run _on_ any phones (that I know of) though 
this blog post offers some hope:
    http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r?view=0274


If you want to connect _to_ a phone from a REBOL-supported platform 
(Win, Lin, MAC, etc) then, as Henrik says, the crucial issue is the 
API to access the phone's functions. REBOL can probable connect to 
that API. But without more details, we'd be guessing.

thanks that was helpfull, o its actually possible to do it

probably :D

I'd suggest that if you want to try REBOL, you need to figure out 
the basics first to figure out why we use it. REBOL is not a very 
popular language, but the followers are pretty loyal.

The REBOL2 external library interface (ie how you might connect to 
an API) is described here:
    http://www.rebol.com/docs/library.html

oh thank you a lot, i think there i finde some answers

i think i start tomorrow with the basics, i think i will be abel 
to do this with rebol