World: r3wp

hm.. it seems I was using the parameters reverse and bind is exactly 
for this :)

...
I don't get this example:
    >> words: [a b c]
    >> fun: func [a b c][print bind words 'a]
    >> fun 1 2 3
    1 2 3

You give it just 'a to bind but is seems to bind b and c too??

yes, because they exist in the same context.

so it binds all the words from the context of the word you give it 
to?

I think it's more correctly to say, it binds the context in which 
the words happen to exist.

yes, that is more clear way to put it

now that I know and read the docs I get that this is written , but 
I haven't before

thanks Henrik!

no problem

Asking for help on a formatting problem


I have the following block that cotains some rebol code which I wish 
to print  on the console and then execute the code:
>> code-blk: [print "ok"]          
== [print "ok"]              <-- assigned a code block just fine
>> do code-blk
== ok                            <-- looks good so far 
>> print code-blk

== ok                           <-- Nope that isn't what I was looking 
for, but I understand why since it is like print the results of print 
"ok"
>> print form code-blk

== print ok                  <-- getting closer to what I desire, 
but the quotes are missing
>> print mold form code-blk

== "print ok"               <-- not what I desired   -- I want the 
original code block to be printed as   print "ok" with the quotes

Any ideas on how to fix this?

source code-blk

>> source code-blk

code-blk: [print "ok"]        <-- My goal is to just get     print 
"ok"    


Another way to pose the question is    How can I convert the entire 
contents of a block, including spaces, into a string?

have a look at source source

Ahhh, you are right Graham, since SOURCE did print the correct string 
somehow!  Will dig into it

>> print mold code-blk
[print "ok"]
>> print head remove back tail remove mold code-blk
print "ok"

Thank you ChristianE  -- I found similar code in SOURCE SOURCE

>> print mold/only [print "ok"]
print "ok"

That is even better!

MOLD/ONLY, ha! As always, there's a refinement you don't think of 
...

As always, there's a refinement you don't think of
 - that's the best thing to remember about REBOL :)

Excuse me. How can I get zero padded with numeric values?  for example 
I want the numeric strings  from "0001"  to "9999"

Several people have written such a function. Here's one of them:
http://www.rebol.org/ml-display-message.r?m=rmlQGBC

Thank  you.

Here's a QAD I use:

>> i: 1
== 1
>> join skip "0000" length? form i i
== "0001"

next form 10000 + now/month
== "0008"

and for that mailing list question ... on how to format yyyymmdd


rejoin  [ now/year next form 100 + now/month next form 100 + now/day 
]
== "20090806"

now/year * 100 + now/month * 100 + now/day
== 20090806

guess have to benchmark to see which is fastest

last version is 5x faster

Nice one.

NIce

Doesn't measure that much faster here, and you have to add the FORM 
call as well. Still nice. :-)


If performance is important, you can do two things: 1) cache NOW, 
2) cache the whole result once a day.

I ran 10,000 iterations with 'form and found it was 5x faster :)

It's something I learned from Forth .. math is always faster than 
logic.

BTW, you can use the same trick for those pesky apis that want leading 
zeros for time

>> time: now/time - 5:00
== 6:29:02
>> next form 100:00 + time
== "06:29:02"

wow a bug with experience  :-)

I am trying to retrieve email from a godaddy account. Their server 
however uses a username with the @ sign. I am not sure but I think 
this is messing up the pop protocol. 

The error I receive is:

connecting to: companyname.com
** Access Error: Cannot connect to companyname.com
** Where: open-proto



Notice that my pop statment has two @ signs in it but is needed to 
login to goDaddy's multi-tenent pop server.


foreach message read pop://[user-:-companyname-:-com]:[password-:-pop-:-secureserver-:-net] 
[
    print message
]

Any Suggestions?

I think there is a fix for that, but I can't remember what it is.

found it

you can use block specification, instead of URL scheme ... or fix 
url-chars ...

net-utils/url-parser/user-char: union net-utils/url-parser/user-char 
make bitset! #"@"

This is for the backslash:


net-utils/url-parser/user-char: union net-utils/url-parser/user-char 
make bitset! #"\"

use Pekr's code

:-) now I was first :-)

I have it in my user.r, so I almost forgot about it ...

you were first, because it took 3 minutes to swap into textmate. 
:-) have too many things running here.

Thank guys.

The Rebol School site is now working again after 4 years of malfunctions.

Andreas helped me today to debug the vanilla issue that was causing 
a server error for most pages ...

http://www.compkarori.com/vanilla/

Basically the data about the user Graham was set to a zero byte file 
when my site was hacked .. and vanilla looks at the user file when 
it displays a snip authored  by that user.  It was unable to load 
this data causing an error, and since I authored many of the snips, 
it caused most of the site to go down.